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GEORGE    KERR     EDWARDS. 


THE    DECENNIAL   RECORD 


The  Class  of  1889 


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PRINCETON   UNIVERSITY 


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The  Prcnceton  Press 

D-  3.   Robinson  &  Oo.,  University  Printers 

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BIOGRAPHICAL  RECORD 


JULY  i,  i895-JULY  i,   1899 


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Preface. 


Classmates  : — Your  Secretary  sends  forth  this  collection  of  Eighty- 
nine  Tales  trusting  that  you  will  each  gain  as  much  pleasure  and  profit 
from  its  perusal  as  has  he  from  its  compilation.  At  first  glance  these 
letters  may  seem  to  furnish  little  more  than  glimpses  of  the  footsteps  and 
fortunes  of  more  or  less  familiar  friends.  Closer  scrutiny,  however,  will 
convince  the  most  uninterested  that  there  is  much  more  contained  between 
the  leaded  lines  than  is  condensed  on  the  printed  page.  That  the  unwrit- 
ten as  well  as  the  written  may  be  sought  and  found  by  every  reader  is  the 
earnest  wish  of  the  editor.  With  this  end  in  view,  he  has  endeavored  not 
only  to  preserve  intact  the  phraseology  of  each  letter  as  it  has  come  to  him, 
but  also  to  present  entire  the  personality  of  each  writer  as  it  has  been  seen 
by  him.  If,  therefore,  there  is  anything  in  this  volume  which  is  worthy 
of  praise,  it  is  due  to  the  members  of  the  Class  who  have  enlightened  us  as 
to  the  substance  as  well  as  to  the  sequence  of  their  lives.  If  it  contains 
anything  which  is  deserving  of  blame,  it  should  be  laid  at  the  door  of  the 
redactor,  who  has  obscured  where  he  hoped  to  make  plain  or  has  misled 
where  he  hoped  to  guide. 

Tours  in  the  bonds  of  '89, 

LEWIS  SETMOUK  MUDGE, 

Class  Secretary, 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  July,  1899 


Biographical  Record. 


Alexander  favored  us  with  the  following 
Alexander,  Maitland  as  his  response  to  our  request  for  information : 

"  I  am  loath  to  begin  to  write  about 
myself.  I  could  perhaps  better  make  some  comments  about  Shrady,  who 
is  my  nearest  neighbor;  Bandy,  or  Waters,  whom  I  occasionally  see,  or 
Speer.  The  latter  said  in  the  Sexennial  Kecord  that  he  was  watching  me, 
and  my  theological  rise  and  fall,  which  has  made  me  so  nervous  that  I  am 
compelled  to  leave  New  York. 

"  The  following  facts  are  the  best  that  I  can  do  for  you  : 

"  My  life  has  been  very  busy  and  rather  uneventful  for  the  last  four 
years.  I  remained  at  Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  as  pastor  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  for  five  years,  or  until  May,  1897.  I  then  was  called  to 
the  Harlem  Presbyterian  Church,  New  York  City,  where  I  went,  and 
where  I  have  been  ever  since.  Speer's  espionage  has  made  it  necessary 
for  me  to  leave  here,  and  therefore  I  have  just  accepted  a  call  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  believing  that  I  can  more  suc- 
cessfully conceal  myself  under  the  coal  and  smoke  than  under  the  garish 
light  of  New  York  sunshine.  My  work  has  been  tolerably  successful — at 
least  I  have  worked  somewhat  harder  at  it  than  I  used  to  over  Physics,  or 
anything  else. 

"I  am  still  unmarried — alas!  nor  have  I  any  children;  nor  am  I 
engaged,  although  that  is  a  very  impertinent  question.  The  only  official 
position  I  occupy  which  is  permanent,  outside  of  my  present  pastorate,  is 
that  of  Director  of  Princeton  Seminary,  to  which  position  I  was  elected 
in  1896. 

"  After  graduation  I  received  my  Master's  Degree,  with  some  of  the 
rest  of  the  class,  in  1892,  and  on  June  22,  1897,  Lafayette  College  added 
the  degree  of  D.D. 

"As  far  as  my  writings  are  concerned  they  have  been  most  prolific. 
I  have  written  two  or  three  very  fine  articles  every  week  for  seven  years. 
They  make  quite  a  number  of  imposing  volumes.  Unfortunately,  I  have 
never  yet  found  any  one  who  will  publish  them.     If  there  is  any  one  in 


the  Class  who  will  guarantee  me  a  large  royalty  I  will  be  willing  to  let 
him  have  them.     No  cheap  firms  need  apply. 

"  My  home  address  after  the  first  of  May  will  be  Shenley  Hotel,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. ;  my  business  address  will  be  The  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

"  I  have  had  no  funny  experiences — that  is  that  I  dare  put  into 
print,  therefore  I  will  stop. " 

Atkinson  treated  the  Class  to  a  very  pleas- 
Atkinson,  Jarvis  N.  ant  surprise  by   appearing   at   the   Decennial 

Keunion  and  Dinner.  Heinformsus  that,  since 
the  Sexennial  Record  was  published,  he  has  continued  the  practice  of  law 
in  Jersey  City.  At  present  he  is  engaged  as  the  attorney  of  the  North 
Jersey  City  Railway  Company,  with  an  ofG.ce  at  29  Exchange  Place. 
The  duties  of  this  position  take  up  so  much  of  his  time,  and  require  such 
frequent  absences  from  home,  that  he  has  found  it  necessary  to  practi- 
cally abandon  his  private  practice  and  to  devote  his  energies  to  railroad 
law.  He  has  promised  a  more  detailed  statement  of  his  recent  doings, 
which  we  hope  to  receive  in  time  to  give  it  a  place  in  the  Appendix.  His 
marriage  was  chronicled  in  his  last  report. 

Peter  writes  as  follows  : 
Atkinson,  W.  Patterson  "  At  the  publication   of  the    Sexennial 

Record  I  was  on  the  faculty  of  St.  John's 
School,  Manlius,  N.  Y.  Till  June,  1897,  Manlius  continued  our  home. 
Increased  work  came  with  the  editorship  of  "  Chapters,"  and  the  promo- 
tion to  the  assistant  commandership.  Also  sorrow  came  with  the  death 
of  our  daughter.  September  of  the  same  year  saw  our  removal  to  Jersey 
City,  and  brought  a  place  on  the  faculty  of  Hasbrouck  Institute.  The 
newly  organized  University  Club  of  Hudson  County,  N.  J.,  elected  me 
a  member  of  its  Board  of  Governors,  and  the  Board  appointed  me  its 
Secretary.  I  joined  the  Schoolmasters'  Association  of  New  York  and 
Vicinity  ;  and  in  December,  1898,  was  elected  an  active  member  of  the 
University  Glee  Club  of  New  York.  In  February,  1899,  a  sudden  and 
very  gratifying  promotion  came  in  an  election  to  the  English  Department 
of  the  Jersey  City  High  School."  We  are  also  greatly  indebted  to  him 
for  the  following  details  of  his  life  which  give  us  a  fuller  glimpse  of  his 
varied  activities.     He  has  filled  the  following  positions  : 


Instructor  in  English,  Mathematics  and  Latin,  Irving  Institute, 
Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  September  1889  to  June  1891 ;  Literary  Editor  of 
"  Sunnyside  Press,"  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  November  1889  to  November 
1892;  Instructor  in  English,  Mathematics  and  Latin,  National  Prepara- 
tory Academy,  Highland  Falls,  N.  Y.,  September  1891  to  June  1892; 
Secretary  Princeton  Alumni  Committee,  July  1892  to  July  1893 ;  Head 
of  English  Department,  St.  John's  Military  School,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 1893  to  June  1897  ;  Tactical  Officer,  St.  John's  Military  School, 
Manlius,  N.  Y.,  September  1892  to  May  1896;  Assistant  Commandant, 
St.  John's  Military  School,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  May  1896  to  June  1897; 
Editor  of  "  Chapters,"  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  April  1896  to  June  1897 ;  Instruc- 
tor in  Mathematics,  History  and  Latin,  Hasbrouck  Institute,  Jersey  City, 
N.  J.,  September  1897  to  February  1899;  Secretary  of  Board  of  Gov- 
ernors of  University  Club  of  Hudson  County,  N.  J.,  December  1897  to 
date;  Instructor  in  English,  High  School,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  February 
1899  to  date. 

Keviews  and  articles  from  his  pen  have  appeared  in  the  "Sunny- 
side  Press"  of  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  November  1895  to  November  1892; 
in  the  "Critic"  of  New  York  City,  and  in  the  "Military  News"  of 
Chicago,  1894;  also  editorials  and  articles  in  "Chapters"  of  Manlius, 
N.  Y.,  April  1896  to  June  1897.  In  addition  to  all  this  he  has  edited  and 
written  an  introduction  for  an  edition  of  George  Eliot's  "  Silas  Marner," 
published  by  Allyn  &  Bacon,  Boston,  1898.  On  December  14,  1897,  his 
home  was  made  glad  by  the  birth  of  a  second  child,  Cedric  Underbill 
Atkinson. 

A  most  pleasant  surprise  greeted 
AuGHlNBAUGH,  THOMAS  L.  US  as  we  opened  our  mail  one  morning 

last  May,  for  it  contained  the  follow- 
ing letter  from  the  long  lost  "  Tommy  "  : 

"  I  have  just  seen  A.  C.  McCord,  and  he  says  from  all  reports  I 
appear  lost  to  the  Class  of  '89.  I  assure  you  I  am  much  in  evidence,  and 
will  be  glad  to  hear  something  about  the  plans  for  our  Reunion,  if  you 
will  favor  me,  and  will  be  pleased  to  contribute  my  mite.  If  you  have 
any  recent  class  records  on  hand,  will  you  send  me  one?  I  am  at  present 
an  attorney-at-law,  and  incidentally  a  Tax  Inquisitor  of  the  State  of 
Ohio.  My  permanent  address  is  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio  ;  please  send 
mail  there." 

This  letter  was  called  forth  through  the  kind  cooperation  of  Rollins, 
who  wrote  to  McCord  concerning  Aughinbaugh.     And,  strange  to  re- 


late,  as  McCord  sat  in  his  Chicago  office  reading  Kollins'  letter,  who 
should  walk  in  but  Tommy  himself  I  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  post- 
office  at  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  was  immediately  inundated  with  mail 
matter,  and  almost  by  return  mail  there  came  to  hand  a  personal  letter  to 
the  Class  Secretary  from  Aughinbaugh,  written  in  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
In  part  it  was  as  follows : 

"  You  will  see  by  the  letterhead  that  I  am  not  at  home.  I  came 
here  this  evening  and  found  quite  a  bunch  of  Reunion  matter,  and  it 
made  me  almost  sick  to  think  I  would  have  to  say  I  could  not  be  in 
Princeton  for  that  occasion.  But  my  business  is  such  just  now  that 
it  will  be  impossible  for  me  to  be  there.  I  am  at  present  engaged  in 
doing  some  work  in  Indiana  on  matters  pertaining  to  comparative 
taxation,  and  cannot  at  this  time  leave  it.  Then  another  matter 
will  prevent,  that  of  my  wedding  anniversary,  which  comes  on  June 
ninth,  at  which  time  my  wife  says  she  is  going  to  celebrate.  I  would  be 
able  to  cope  with  this  latter,  and  bribe  her  into  going  to  Princeton  with 
me,  but  the  business  I  cannot  neglect. 

"  Now,  as  to  myself.  You  do  not  have  an  idea  what  you  suggest 
when  you  ask  me  to  give  a  complete  history  of  myself  since  1889.  I  feel 
that  I  have  almost  lost  my  identity  with  the  Class,  and  would  like  to  be 
at  the  Eeunion  in  order  to  find  myself,  but,  from  the  kind  solicitation  of 
yourself  and  Rollins,  feel  that  I  have  again  been  found  and  placed  in  the 
ranks.  It  is  out  of  the  question  to  give  you  a  complete  history  of  myself 
since  I  left  the  Historic  Halls  of  Princeton  in  June,  1889,  but  I  can  give 
you  an  outline  and  you  may  draw  your  own  conclusions  and  make 
matter  for  the  Decennial  Record  as  you  see  fit. 

"After  graduating  I  read  law  in  Warren,  Ohio,  with  Ex-Senator 
John  M.  Stull ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1891,  and  sought  larger 
fields  in  Chicago.  I  did  not  get  into  active  practice  there,  and  in 
consequence  of  my  father's  age  and  failing  health,  I  came  back  East, 
and  about  the  latter  part  of  1892  settled  in  West  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  and 
commenced  the  practice  of  law.  This  was  my  mother's  old  home  and  I 
had  many  good  friends  there,  and  have  gotten  along  nicely,  although  I 
have  not  stuck  to  active  practice.  During  the  time  I  have  lived  in  New 
Philadelphia  I  have  served  as  Assistant  Deputy  Probate  Judge  and 
Deputy  County  Auditor.  Having  dabbled  a  little  in  politics,  you  see  I  was 
not  allowed  to  be  in  active  practice ;   my  friends  did  not  seem  to  let  me. 

"After  leaving  the  Auditor's  Office  last  October,  I  became  asso- 
ciated with  one  of  those  "  despi«ed  creatures  "  in  Ohio  politics  known  as 


Tax  Inquisitors,  and  am  now  doing  that  worii  in  a  number  of  counties  in 
Ohio.  At  present  we  are  doing  some  special  work  on  comparative  taxa- 
tion, and  I  have  been  working  in  a  few  counties  in  Indiana.  On  June  9, 
1898,  I  was  married  to  Miss  Katharine  Officer  of  New  Philadelphia, 
Ohio,  and  make  New  Philadelphia  my  home  and  my  business  headquar- 
ters, for  my  home  county  is  one  of  the  places  in  which  I  do  my  work. 

"  Remember  me  most  kindly  to  all  the  boys,  and  say  I  would  gladly 
be  at  the  Reunion  if  it  were  possible  ;  and  even  if  I  could  come  for  a  day 
I  would  do  so.  You  have  my  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  the  Reunion 
and  the  ultimate  success  of  every  member  of  the  Class  of  '89." 

Such  a  cordial  response  to  our  circular  as  this  certainly  deserves  a 
warm  greeting  in  return.  We  are  sure  that  we  represent  the  mind  of  the 
Class  truly  when  we  give  Tommy  Aughinbaugh  a  hearty  welcome  as  he 
re-enters  our  ranks,  and  express  the  hope  that  we  shall  not  again  lose  him 
therefrom. 

We  are  under  great  obligations  to  Mitchell, 

AULICK,  Richmond  O.  who  has  prepared  the  accompanying  sketch 

of  Aulick's  life  for  publication  in  the  Record. 

"  Richmond  Ogston  Aulick  died  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey  on  the  six- 
teenth day  of  July,  1897,  of  rapid  consumption  following  a  severe  cold 
contracted  during  the  winter. 

"Aulick  was  prepared  for  college  at  St.  John's  School,  Sing  Sing,  and 
in  the  fall  of  1885  entered  Princeton,  where  he  at  once  took  his  place  as  a 
student  of  marked  ability.  His  striking  personality  and  aggressive  inde- 
pendence made  him  a  prominent  figure  in  class  and  college  life.  He 
never  sought  or  enjoyed  general  popularity,  and  took  no  pains  to  concil- 
iate the  opinions  or  prejudices  of  others.  For  all  time-serving  hypocrisy 
and  cant  he  felt  and  exhibited  a  scornful  detestation,  and  was  no  respecter 
of  persons. 

"A  clear  and  fearless  thinker,  a  wide  and  thorough  reader,  an  able  and 
brilliant  talker,  he  sought  knowledge  for  its  own  sake  and  in  his  own  way, 
and  although  necessarily  standing  high  in  his  Class,  for  grade  in  itself  he 
cared  nothing  and  never  lifted  his  finger  to  outrank  another  man. 

"  Graduating  cum  laude  in  1889,  he  took  the  Historical  Fellowship 
and  devoted  a  year  to  postgraduate  study  in  Princeton.  He  then  entered 
the  Harvard  Law  School,  where  he  distinguished  himself  as  a  student, 
and  three  years  later  began  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City. 


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"Although  possessed  of  ample  means  Aulick  was  a  hard  and  conscien- 
tious worker,  and  aimed  high  in  his  profession.  He  made  a  specialty  of 
court  work  and  showed  the  keenest  interest  in  every  principle  of  law 
brought  to  his  attention,  however  small  the  amount  at  stake. 

"  No  one  who  had  the  privilege  of  knowing  Aulick  intimately  could 
fail  to  be  lastingly  impressed  by  his  high  sense  of  personal  honor,  his 
absolute  truthfulness,  and  the  intensity,  loyalty,  and  tenderness  of  his 
affections.  Children  and  animals  read  him  aright  and  loved  him  instinc- 
tively. A  true  sportsman  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word,  he  loved  nature 
intensely  and  found  his  chief  enjoyment  in  the  pleasures  of  country  life. 
With  horse,  rod,  and  gun  he  was  familiar  and  proficient. 

"At  the  time  of  his  death  Aulick  was  a  member  of  the  Metropolitan 
Club  of  Washington,  D.  C,  the  Knickerbocker  and  Metropolitan  Clubs 
and  the  Bar  Association  of  New  York  City,  and  of  the  Westchester 
County  Country  Club.  He  was  a  son  of  the  late  Captain  Richmond 
Aulick,  and  a  grandson  of  the  late  Commodore  John  H.  Aulick,  both  of 
the  United  States  Navy.  Aulick  died  on  his  thirty-first  birthday,  the  last 
of  his  name." 


We  have  had  no  response  as  yet  from  Andy, 
Banks,  Andrew  and  the  reason  why  is  not  far  to  be  found.     He 

is  in  Manila  with  the  Tenth  Pennsylvania 
Regiment,  making  history  for  his  country  and  incidentally  a  record  for 
himself.  Allie  Barr  has  promised  us  a  sketch  of  his  life  since  1895,  when 
we  heard  from  him  last,  but  rather  than  delay  the  printing  of  the 
Record  until  it  arrives,  we  invite  the  reader  to  postpone  the  pleasure  of 
its  perusal  until  he  reaches  the  Appendix,  where  we  hope  he  will  find  it, 
together  with  some  other  equally  delightful  productions  of  the  pens  of 
the  Class  of  1889. 

Here  is  a  most  satisfactory  letter  from  a 
Barr,  Alfred  H.  very  successful  man  : 

"  I  have  not  much  to  say  except  that  I  am 
busy,  well  and  happy.  Here  in  the  most  beautiful  city  in  the  country, 
with  the  be.it  wife  and  kindest  church  in  the  world,  not  to  acknowledge 
that  life  has  treated  me  well  would  be  ungrateful.  One  rift  within  the 
blue  is  the  fact  that  all  other  '89  men  seem  to  have  overlooked  this  oasis. 
There  is  a  '90  man  two  doors  above,   and  another  '90  man  two  doors 


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below  me,  but  not  an  '89  man  in  the  whole  town.  In  fact,  I  have  only- 
seen  one  '89  man  since  I  came  out  here  in  1896.  One  evening  as  I 
dropped  oil  a  train  at  the  Michigan  Central  depot  I  nearly  ran  into  a  fel- 
low, who  at  once  woke  up  and  remarked  in  a  nonchalant  fashion  :  '  Hello  ! 
Allie.  I  was  wondering  whether  I  might  not  run  across  you.'  It  was 
'  Bum  '  Brownell.  The  same  old  fellow — frank,  warm  hearted,  true  as 
steel.  He  had  the  genial  air  of  prosperity  about  him,  too.  In  fact,  judg- 
ing from  his  frequent  vibrations  between  Colorado  and  New  York  City,  I 
should  judge  his  ship  was  coming  in  all  right.  He  is  one  of  the  men  in 
the  world  I  should  like  to  see  with  a  million  or  two.  A  millionaire  mis- 
sionary from  old  '89,  though  I  do  not  know  just  where  or  how,  would  be 
the  result. 

"You  knew  that  'Stumpy  '  Banks  was  in  Manila?  He  enlisted  with 
the  Tenth  Pennsylvania.  I  wonder  whether  the  '89  freshmen  in  South 
Edwards  remember  the  night  Andy  cleared  the  enemy  out  with  a  light- 
ning rod.  I  believe  I  would  match  Andy  with  his  twenty  foot  weapon 
against  a  whole  regiment  of  Philippines.  Furthermore,  I  do  not  believe 
we  shall  ever  hear  of  Andy  retreating.  I  never  knew  him  to  run  from 
anyone  in  his  life  except  '  Kich  '  Aulick,  and  on  that  occasion  he  pro- 
tested it  was  out  of  consideration  for  Aulick 's  welfare.  Probably  the 
three  times  round  Old  North  sprint  did  approach  severe  training  more 
nearly  than  anything  Aulick  ever  did  before. 

"As  to  my  work  here  there  is  little  to  be  said.  Every  day  is  full  of 
work.  1  am  in  the  thick  of  the  fascinating  problems  of  a  busy  city 
church.  Life  grows  more  interesting  every  year.  If  any  profession  gives 
a  man  a  chance  for  complete,  abundant  living,  it  is  the  ministry.  We 
are  making  some  progress  here  in  Detroit,  I  hope,  and  the  people  have 
been  incomparably  more  kind  than  I  deserve. 

"  There  are  some  Princeton  men  in  our  congregation,  but  more  Yale 
men.  When  Yale  wins  a  game  the  fact  is  never  overlooked  by  the  latter, 
and  in  return  I  try  to  keep  them  reasonably  well  informed  on  Princeton 
victories. 

"  I  met  a  brother-in-law  of  Chase  down  the  St.  Lawrence  River  last 
summer,  who  said  that  '  Boogus '  was  studying  medicine  at  Ann  Arbor. 
As  Chase  has  not  looked  me  up,  I  am  going  out  this  week  to  look  him  up. 

"  I  am  desperately  anxious  to  get  down  to  the  Decennial.  A  fellow 
only  has  one  Decennial  in  a  lifetime.  And  there  is  only  one  '89  in  the 
world.     How  the  mere  thought  of  the  old  Class  starts  our  blood  going  ! 


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And  so  I  am  hoping  against  hope  that  I  can  get  back.     God  bless  the 
dear  old  Class  and  every  last  man  on  her  roll." 

To  the  information  contained  in  the  above  we  should  add  that  Barr 
is  the  pastor  of  the  Jefferson  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church  of  Detroit, 
Michigan,  and  a  very  active  and  prosperous  charge  it  seems  to  be,  if  we 
may  judge  from  some  church  publications  which  we  have  received.  He 
was  married  on  February  17,  1897,  to  Miss  Annie  Elizabeth  Wilson  of 
Indiana,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Pulpit 
Supplies  of  this  year's  International  Christian  Endeavor  Convention, 
which  is  in  session  in  Detroit  as  this  is  passing  through  the  press.  He 
was  a  commissioner  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
which  met  last  May  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  While  there  he  wrote 
a  letter  to  your  Secretary  about  the  "  Thrapps."  As  it  is  well  worth 
printing,  it  will  be  found  under  the  caption  "  Thrapp,  Sadie."  We 
greatly  regret  that  Barr  was  unable  to  attend  the  Decennial  Reunion. 

The  epistle  below  was  addressed  to   "Louis 

Barr,  J.  Rogers  Smizer  Mudge,  Esq."     At  first  glance  we  were  in 

doubt   as    to   the   identity   of    the   individual   so 

named.     A  perusal  of  its  contents,  however,  led  us  to  believe  that  "  we 

were  he,"  and  so  here  it  is,  verbatim  : 

"  Your  circular  letter  of  April  first  reached  me  a  long  time  ago,  and  I 
must  apologize  for  the  delay  in  answering.  However,  I  trust  this  delay 
has  not  caused  you  any  convenience.  (Yes;  "we  are  he!"  These 
introductory  sentences  dispel  all  our  doubts.)  It  is  my  desire  and  hope 
that  I  may  be  at  the  Reunion  in  June,  and  I  feel  sure  that  it  will  be  one 
of  the  most  pleasant  experiences  of  my  life. 

"  Since  my  last  letter  to  you  in  June,  1895,  I  have  been  constantly 
employed  by  the  Lexington  and  Eastern  Railway  Company.  At  that  time 
I  held  the  position  of  Engineer  in  the  Maintenance  of  Way  Department, 
but  in  March,  1897,  I  was  chosen  General  Manager  of  the  same  com- 
pany, which  position  I  now  hold.  I  find  my  place  a  very  agreeable  one, 
and  that  railroad  life  is  most  attractive  to  me. 

"Unfortunately  I  see  very  little  of  any  of  our  classmates,  Desha 
Breckinridge  being  the  only  one  in  this  vicinity.  Desha,  I  am  very  glad 
to  say,  is  doing  splendidly.  He  is  now  Managing  Editor  of  the  Lexington 
Herald,  a  prosperous  and  influential  paper  of  this  section.  Some  months 
ago  he  married  a  very  charming  woman,  the  daughter  of  Major  H.  C. 
McDowell  of  this  city. 


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"As  requested,  the  answers  to  your  questions  are  as  follows :  My 
home  address  is  179  South  Limestone  Street,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and 
my  business  address,  Lexington  and  Eastern  Eailway  Company,  Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky.  My  present  position  is  that  of  General  Manager  and 
Engineer  for  the  Lexington  and  Eastern  Railway  Company.  As  stated 
in  the  Sexennial  Record,  I  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Nelson  "Wood  in 
February,  1895,  at  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky.  We  have  two  children — 
John  Watson  Barr,  born  April  29,  1896,  in  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky  ; 
and  Jason  Rogers  Barr,  Jr.,  born  February  21,  1899,  in  Lexington, 
Kentucky." 

We  regret  to  record  that  Jase  was  among  the  absentees  notwith- 
standing his  desire  to  be  present  at  the  Decennial. 

Writing  from  105  East  Johnson  street,  Ger- 
Bayard,  S.  McKean         mantown,  Pennsylvania,  Bayard  says: 

"If  I  had  had  any  experiences  within  the 
last  four  years  that  could  possibly  be  of  interest  to  any  of  our  good  old 
class  it  would  afford  me  the  greatest  pleasure  to  jot  them  down,  but  in 
thinking  over  what  I  might  say  in  reply  to  your  recent  circular  letter  I 
have  been  struck  more  forcibly  than  ever  before  by  what  might  be  called 
the  '  barrenness '  of  my  life. 

"  I  would  not  write  in  a  minor  key  and  yet  the  apparent  success  of 
my  career  seems  to  shrink  to  such  small  proportions  when  compared  with 
that  of  other  fellows  that  it  is  almost  appalling.  But  first  let  me  give  you 
the  statistical  data  for  which  you  ask, 

"  My  home  address  is  that  given  above. 

"My  business  address  is  Broad  Street  Station,  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

"  I  am  now  ranked  as  the  Passenger  Yard  Master  of  the  Philadelphia 
Division,  Pennsylvania  Railroad. 

"  I  am  not  married,  and  am  not  nor  have  I  ever  been  engaged. 

"  I  have  never  held  any  '  ofBcial '  positions  worth  speaking  of.  I  was 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  our  Parish  Chapter  of  the  Brotherhood  of  St. 
Andrew  for  about  six  years,  and  have  been  connected  with  the  Parish 
choir  for  about  eight  years. 

"  Politically  I  have  been  content  to  serve  in  the  ranks,  attending  the 
primary  elections  to  aid  in  securing  the  nomination  of  decent  candidates 
for  office,    and  while  a  fairly   strict  '  party  '  man  have  frequently  voted 


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for  the  candidate  of  the  opposition  in  state  or  local  elections.  I  am  a 
Republican,  hut  'anti-Quay,'  and  am  glad  to  say  that  I  did  not  vote  for 
the  Quay  gubernatorial  nominee  at  the  last  election. 

"  I  have  taken  no  degrees  or  honors  from  any  institutions,  have  neither 
written  nor  edited  any  books,  pamphlets  or  miscellaneous  articles,  and 
have  neither  patented  any  invention  nor  perfected  any  process. 

"  There  are  so  very  few  of  our  fellows  with  whom  I  ever  come  in  con- 
tact that  I  can  really  give  you  no  information  about  any  of  them. 
Sailer,  I  believe,  has  perfected  a  process  by  which  one  may  be  reading 
in  Sanscrit,  conversing  in  Hebrew,  and  incidentally  getting  oflF  one  of 
Chopin's  nocturnes,  all  at  the  same  time.  He  was  a  prodigy  ten  years 
ago  when  a  ball  used  to  go  through  the  back  window  of  his  room  in  Re- 
union to  disconcert  him  as  he  was  playing  a  difficult  piece,  and  he  is  a 
prodigy  still.  I  shall  scan  Mount's  letter  particularly  to  see  what  infor- 
mation he  gives  you  under  section  six,  as  I  have  a  secret  feeling  that  he 
should  answer  that  section  in  combination  with  section  eleven.  I  think 
he  is  ' perfecting  a  process  '  for  becoming  engaged,  even  if  the  formula 
is  not  already  completed.     (Bayard's  suspicions  were  correct.) 

"  It  is  not  quite  three  years  since  I  was  promoted  to  my  present  posi- 
tion, and  its  duties  are  such  that  I  am  necessarily  kept  closely  down  to 
business.  Nominally  on  duty  for  ten  hours  every  week  day  and  a  portion 
of  every  Sunday,  I  am  apt  to  find  my  days  suddenly  stretched  far  into 
the  night,  and  when  there  is  a  wreck  or  kindred  trouble  on  the  road,  or 
when  travel  is  exceptionally  heavy,  you  will  tind  meat  Broad  Street  look- 
ing after  the  interests  of  the  main  line  until  the  trouble  or  rush  of  travel 
is  over,  be  the  hour  what  it  may. 

"  During  the  Peace  Jubilee  held  here  last  fall,  I  reached  home  from  my 
office  at  four  in  the  morning  one  day,  having  been  at  it  since  eight  o'clock 
the  previous  morning,  and  then  after  a  couple  of  hours  sleep,  I  went  back 
again  and  remained  until  after  midnight. 

"  But  with  its  apparent  drawbacks,  the  business  has  a  fascination  that 
seems  to  grow  on  one  with  the  passing  years,  and  while  promotion  is  slow 
and  remuneration  insignificant  as  compared  with  that  of  other  professions 
or  business  pursuits,  you  will  find  men  in  the  railroad  service  loyal  and 
devoted  to  their  work.  And  it  can  be  said  further,  although  many  doubt 
the  statement,  that  the  man  of  education,  with  his  mind  trained  to  think, 
and  then  to  form  opinions  that  he  can  reasonably  stand  up  for,  is  bound 
to  get  along  in  railroading  as  he  would  in  one  of  the  '  professions.'     Edu- 


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cation  counts  sooner  or  later  in  every  sphere  of  life,  and  those  who  have 
the  benefit  of  a  college  course  should  and  must  always  feel  glad  of  it. 

' '  In  the  summer  of  1895,  after  having  dwindled  down  to  a  mere  shadow 
of  my  former  self,  I  put  myself  under  a  specialist's  care,  and  as  a  result  of 
adhering  to  a  very  strict  and  somewhat  peculiar  diet,  taking  a  considerable 
quantity  of  medicine,  and  spending  all  my  surplus  income,  I  am  now 
practically  out  of  the  woods,  have  gained  about  thirty  pounds  in  weight, 
and,  in  fact,  am  getting  almost  too  heavy.  I  crawled  out  of  a  small  hole, 
but  my  doctor  seems  to  think  that  with  proper  care  I  will  not  go  back 
again. 

"  That  our  approaching  Reunion  will  be  a  great  and  glorious  suceess  I 
have  not  the  slightest  doubt,  and  I  certainly  hope  to  be  on  hand,  but  there 
is  always  an  element  of  doubt  in  such  things  owing  to  business  matters, 
so  that  I  can  make  no  definite  promises." 

Later  we  received  the  following  from  Bayard,  and  with  a  regret  in 
which  many  of  the  Class  doubtless  shared  when  they  found  him  absent 
from  the  Reunion : 

"  It  is  with  very  sincere  regrets  that  I  write  to  say  that  I  will  not  be 
present  at  the  '89  reunion  next  month. 

"  You  may  well  imagine  how  sorry  I  am  that  such  is  the  case,  and  I 
would  be  only  too  glad  of  an  opportunity  to  explain  to  you  just  why  I 
will  not  be  there,  but  it  will  be  sufficient  in  a  letter  to  say  that  the  reasons 
are  partly  business  and  partly  personal.  I  have  been  hoping  against  hope 
that  matters  would  so  shape  themselves  as  to  enable  me  to  be  with  you 
all,  but  there  seems  to  be  no  way  out  of  it,  and  I  can  only  say  that  I  can 
not  be  on  hand. 

"  That  the  Reunion  will  be  in  every  way  successful  and  enjoyable  there 
is  no  doubt,  and  I  shall  certainly  be  thinking  of  the  good  time  you  all  are 
having  as  the  date  comes  along. 

•'  However,  as  I  cannot  be  there,  I  can  only  wish  you  all  a  most  de- 
lightful time." 

We  had  it,  "  Mac,"  every  one  of  us,  and  some  of  us  paused  long 
enough  amid  our  pleasures  to  remember  your  loyalty  as  a  friend  and  as  a 
classmate,  and  to  feel  sorry  over  your  unavoidable  absence. 

Mose  Belknap  always  sends  us  interest- 
Belknap,  Eugene  W.  ing  letters  for  our  Records.     You  will  enjoy 

this  one,  and  will  rejoice  with  him  in   the 
well-merited  success  which  has  been  his  during  the  last  four  years. 


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"  Excuse  my  delay  in  answering  your  letter  of  inquiry  for  the  Class 
Eecord.  I  have  answered  in  mind  and  spirit  a  dozen  times.  I  will  start 
in  by  answering  the  printed  questions  at  once. 

' '  My  home  address  is  507  East  Genesee  Street,  Syracuse,  New 
York,  and  my  business  address  is  the  same.  My  present  occupation  is 
the  general  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery. 

"  I  married,  April  22,  1897,  Miss  Isabella  Hall  Mann  of  Syracuse,  in 
St.  Paul's  Church,  this  city.  We  have  one  child,  a  boy,  Eugene 
McCauly  Belknap,  born  February  1,  1898,  in  Syracuse.  The  only  ofB- 
cial  position  I  occupy  is  that  of  Instructor  in  the  Principles  and  Practice 
of  Medicine  in  the  Medical  Department  of  Syracuse  University. 

"  No  degrees  have  come  my  way  since  my  M.D.  from  Columbia  in 
1892,  and  my  A.M.  from  old  Princeton  the  same  year.  I  have  not  writ- 
ten anything  for  publication,  but  have  read  several  papers  before  the 
Onondaga  County  Medical  Society  and  the  Syracuse  Academy  of  Medi- 
cine. In  the  line  of  inventing  or  perfecting,  I  have  done  nothing  that  I 
know  of,  with  the  possible  exception  of  inventing  an  occasional  profes- 
sional fib  and  the  perfecting  of  my  own  somewhat  sluggish  mental 
processes. 

"  I  do  not  believe  I  can  give  you  any  information  about  any  other 
'89  men  that  you  do  not  know  already.  The  period  since  our  last 
Reunion  covers  just  the  time  I  have  lived  here  in  Syracuse,  and  includes, 
as  you  see,  two  quite  important  events  in  my  life — my  becoming  a  Bene- 
dict and  a  father.  As  regards  the  youngster,  he  will  be  brought  up  in 
the  belief  that  all  straight  roads  lead  to  Princeton,  and  that  he  must  walk 
that  way.  Barring  some  unforeseen  circumstance,  I  am  settled  for  good 
in  Syracuse ;  and  with  old  '  Jen  '  here  too,  it  looks  as  if  3  East  Middle 
Witherspoon  had  about  settled  down  in  Central  New  York.  My  time 
during  the  last  four  years  has  been  given  entirely  to  my  medical  practice. 
You  know  I  have  been  able  to  float  back  to  old  Princeton  pretty  regu- 
larly, and  have  thus  managed  to  keep  in  touch  with  the  old  place.  I 
cannot  get  back  there  too  often  though,  and  next  June  will  see  '  Jen  '  and 
me  there  at  the  Reunion,  unless  something  quite  out  of  the  ordinary  pre- 
vents. War  record,  I  have  none  ;  unless  the  examining  of  several  hund- 
red recruits,  and  telling  a  lot  of  them  that  they  were  the  stuff  to  go,  and 
remaining  home  myself,  might  be  termed  a  war  record.  This  tells  '89 
about  all  they  want  to  know  of  '  Mose,'  I  guess,  so  I  will  quit.  Here's 
to  a  good  Reunion  and  a  fine  Class  Record,  both  assured." 


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We  take  this  opportunity  to  thank  Belknap,  on  behalf  of  the  Class, 
for  the  excellent  account  of  George  Edwards'  life  which  he  has  con- 
tributed to  the  Decennial  Record. 

We  have  received  this  note  from  Berrj  : 
Berry,  Edward  P.  "  I   have    done    nothing   noteworthy   since 

1895,  but  the   following   is   the   record   thereof. 

"  My  present  address  is  130  Church  street,  Hoosick  Falls,  New  York, 
and  my  present  occupation  is  that  of  a  clergyman.  I  was  married  in  April, 
1896,  to  Miss  Jeanie  Gertrude  Adams  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Our 
only  child,  Dorothea  Adams  Berry,  was  born  on  February  16,  1897,  at 
Hoosick  Falls,  New  York,  and  died  at  the  same  place  on  April  21,  1897.  I 
have  done  little  literary  work  since  the  publication  of  my  first  novel,  'Leah 
of  Jerusalem, '  in  1890,  by  Randolph  &  Co. ,  of  New  York  City,  and  Hodder 
&  Stoughton  in  London  ;  and  my  second,  '  When  the  Tides  Meet,'  pub- 
lished in  1893,  by  the  Arena  Company  of  Boston.  I  send  an  occaiional  article 
to  the  New  York  religious  weeklies,  having  risen  to  the  great  height  of  the 
'  Independent.'  If  time  and  Providence  permit,  I  hope  one  day  to  do 
some  work  in  literature  which  will  bring  honor  on  the  Class  of  '89." 

We  trust  that  Berry's  wish  will  be  fully  realized,  and  that  he  will  be 
able  to  gratify  fully  his  own  literary  tastes  as  well  as  those  of  his  friends, 
who  know  his  marked  ability  in  the  world  of  letters,  and  who  expect  great 
things  from  him  in  the  future. 

Here  is  a  letter  from  a  long-lost  classmate. 
Black,  Frederick  Black  was  discovered  on  Black's  Island,  in  the 

Delaware  river,  below  Philadelphia,  mainly 
through  the  efforts  of  Phil  Rollins.     From  that  place  he  writes  us  : 

"  Your  telegraphic  communication  was  duly  received,  and  I  beg  to 
here  note  that  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  know  that  our  worthy  Class 
Secretary  has  at  last  discovered  my  address.  However,  it  is  more  likely 
my  fault  for  not  having  imagined  that  he  was  in  quest  of  me.  If  I  had, 
I  should  have  joined  him  in  the  pursuit,  although  distant  but  twenty 
miles — Mudge  at  Beverly,  on  the  shores  of  Spain,  and  Black  at  Black's 
Island,  on  the  shores  of  Penn.  The  shores  of  Troy  cut  no  ice,  but  we 
cut  last  winter  a  very  fine  article. 

"At  this  point  let  me  thank  you  for  the  copy  of  the  Sexennial  Record, 
which  came  in  this  morning's  mail.     You  see  we  receive  our  mail  here 


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every  four  years.  And  I  must  confess  I  am  well  informed  that  in  our 
sister  State,  '  trans  flumen  Delawarium '  (I  refer  you  to  Belknap  for  a 
verbatim  et  literatim  translation),  business  is  conducted  with  greater 
briskness.  I  have  glanced  over  the  Sexennial  Record,  and  I  fear  from 
what  Borden  says  therein  that  I  had  better  explain  my  position  upon 
mentioning  the  word  Penn.  But  Phil  Rollins  should  by  all  means  first 
know  that  your  humble  writer  shot,  mortally  wounded,  killed  and  skinned 
with  bis  own  hands  a  wild  deer  on  these  domains,  within  six  miles  of  the 
City  Hall,  and  no  one  has  said  it  escaped  from  the  Zoo.  As  a  matter  of 
fact  it  came  from  Jersey. 

"  "Well,  Mudge,  it  really  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  read  over  the  differ- 
ent accounts  of  the  fellows  of  our  Class.  I  only  regret  that  1  did  not  know 
long  ago  of  the  practical  work  being  done  by  the  Class  and  class  officers. 
During  my  short  stay  in  Princeton  at  the  Decennial  Reunion  I  attended 
the  class  meeting  and  there  noticed  the  strong  binding  ties  of  friendship 
among  fellow-classmen,  which  is  noteworthy  of  Old  Nassau.  In  the  future 
I  trust  you  will  keep  me  somewhat  posted  on  the  doings  of  our  Class,  as 
it  is  my  desire  to  be  in  touch. 

"That  I  may  not  weary  you  further,  I  will  proceed  forthwith 
to  give  you  something  of  a  synopsis  of  my  doings  during  the 
past  four  years.  I  notice,  however,  I  am  classified  among  those 
in  the  Sexennial  Record  from  whom  no  report  is  found,  and  for  thia 
reason  I  take  it,  it  is  incumbent  upon  me  to  give  something  in  detail,  and 
covering  a  period  say  from  the  date  of  the  graduation  of  the  Class  in  188&. 
Of  course  you  know  after  leaving  Princeton  I  entered  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  At  the  end  of  the  Junior  year,  owing  to  my  father's 
declining  health  (who,  by  the  way,  was  graduated  from  Princeton  in 
1843),  I  concluded  to  join  him  in  business,  he  having  a  large  interest 
here.  While  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  I  rowed  on  the  Varsity 
crew,  played  football  and  did  something  in  track  athletics,  and  estab- 
lished a  record,  I  believe,  for  swimming  across  the  Thames  above  New 
London,  with  a  Yale  oar.  In  short,  where  there  was  any  nonsense  at 
that  time,  it  seems  to  me  now  I   was  there. 

'*  Since  1889  I  have  been  established  here  as  a  country  gentle- 
man (if  you  please),  having  some  outside  interests  to  look  after, 
which,  together  with  the  farm,  seem  to  keep  me  steadily  em- 
ployed. I  have  read  some  law,  being  duly  registered  in  the 
office  of  L.  H.  Alexander,  211  South  Sixth  street,  Philadelphia,  a 
University  of  Pennsylvania  man,  but  as  no  clients  have  as  yet  guaranteed 


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me  their  support  in  advance,  I  am  contented  to  remain  an  honorable 
layman  until  the  same  is  assured.  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  King- 
sessing  and  Tinicum  Meadow  Company  for  the  past  three  years. 

"  I  was  married  Januay  24,  1889,  to  Miss  Ellen  Thompson  Lennig, 
daughter  of  George  G.  Lennig,  of  Philadelphia.  Our  first  child,  Ellen 
Lennig  Black,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  December  3,  1889;  the  second, 
Frederick  Black,  Jr.,  was  born  at  Black's  Island,  Pa.,  February  4,  1892, 
and  the  third,  Newbold  Black,  born  at  Black's  Island,  Pa.,  August  17, 
1898.  Hence,  no  claimants  to  the  contrary,  Nellie  is  class  girl.  Captain 
Black,  of '88,  and  mj'self  have  recently  arranged  for  a  trolley  line  through 
this  section,  which  "will  be  completed  in  the  near  future.  If  in  your 
wise  judgment  you  find  my  account  too  lengthy,  you  will,  I  trust,  credit 
me  with  an  attempt  to  amend  in  a  measure  for  past  neglect." 

Upon  a  letter  sheet  headed  W.  R.  Bonsai 
BONSAL,  W.  ROSCOE  &  Co.,  Contractors,  Hamlet,  N.  C,  the  following 

reply  to  our  inquiries  was  written : 

"You  will  certainly  have  to  excuse  my  not  answering  your  circular 
ages  ago.  (We  certainly  will.  "We  are  too  glad  to  hear  from  you  again 
'  Rocky  '  to  harbor  any  grudges.)  I  certainly  expect  to  be  present  at  the 
Reunion.     (He  was  present,  we  were  about  to  say  omnipresent.) 

"  I  will  endeavor  to  answer  the  eleven  questions.  (This  sounds  as  if  he 
thought  that  he  was  about  to  attempt  an  examination  in  'mechanics.') 

"  My  home  address  is  Baltimore  Club,  Baltimore,  Md.  My  business 
addresses  are  21  South  Gay  Street,  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  Hamlet,  N.  C. 
My  occupation  is  that  of  a  contractor,  under  the  firm  name  of  W.  R. 
Bonsai  &  Co.,  Mr.  O.  L.  Cloud  being  the  '  Co.' 

"During  the  past  few  years  I  have  built  several  electrical  railroads, 
sewer  systems,  and  considerable  railroad  work.  In  the  past  two  years  I  have 
huilt  for  the  United  States  Government  fortifications  at  North  Point, 
Baltimore  and  Sullivan's  Island,  S.  C,  and  a  portion  of  the  fortifica- 
tions at  St.  Helena  Island,  S.  C.  I  have  been  very  busy  for  the  past  few 
years,  and  am  especially  so  at  this  time. 

"I  am  engaged  to  Miss  Mary  Minturn  Potter,  of  Newport,  Rhode 
Island.  I  have  filled  no  political  positions,  received  no  honors,  done  no 
literary  work,  patented  no  inventions,  perfected  no  processes  of  any  kind. 
I  have  seen  very  little  of  any  of  my  classmates,  and  am  sorry  that  I  can 
give  no  information  concerning  any  of  them." 


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We  congratulate  'Kocky'  upon  his  engagement,  and  trust  that  it  will 
be  as  short  as  his  letter  to  us,  his  married  life  as  long  as  we  would  like 
this  epistle  to  have  been. 

In  response  to  a  personal  note  Borden  sent 
Borden,  E.  Shirley  us  this  reply  : 

"  As  a  favor  to  you  I  answer  your  P.  S.  on 
the  circular.  To  be  perfectly  frank  that  is  the  only  reason  I  do  answer  it. 
There  are  not  over  half-a-dozen  fellows  in  the  Class  who  know  my  name, 
and  those  half-dozen  know  a  great  deal  more  about  me  than  the  Kecord 
will  publish.  I  think  in  my  case  it  is  a  good  deal  of  a  farce  putting  my 
name  in  at  all,  and  my  feelings  would  not  be  hurt  if  it  were  left  out.  If 
I  had  been  in  college  any  length  of  time  it  would  be  different." 

We  very  much  regret  that  Borden  feels  thus  with  reference  to  the 
Class  at  large,  and  beg  leave  to  assure  him  that  we  hold  those  who  were 
with  us  but  a  part  of  our  college  course  in  just  as  high  regard  as  those  who 
were  graduated  with  the  Class.  Our  motto  is  "Once  an  Eighty-nine  man, 
always  an  Eighty-nine  man."  Therefore,  we  hope  that  he  will  pardon  us 
if  we  tell  the  Class  what  we  know  about  him.  Since  his  return  from  the 
West,  which  event  was  chronicled  in  the  Sexennial  Record,  he  has 
been  spending  his  winters  in  Philadelphia,  and  his  summers  at  various 
resorts.  We  had  the  pleasure  of  passing  many  hours  in  his  company 
during  the  summer  of  1897  when  he  had  a  cottage  near  Caldwell,  Lake 
George,  New  York.  He  has  developed  a  remarkable  talent  for  painting 
in  oil  and  water  colors.  His  specialty  is  animal  portraiture.  He  has  been 
unusually  successful  in  reproducing  horses  and  dogs  upon  the  canvas,  and 
had  one  of  his  pictures  assigned  a  very  honorable  position  in  a  recent  exhi- 
bition of  paintings  at  the  Art  Club,  Philadelphia.  We  understand  that  he 
intends  to  devote  himself  to  the  development  of  this  his  gift,  and  those  who 
know  him  predict  much  for  him  in  the  future.  He  has  two  children 
living,  Katharine,  who  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  May  29,  1893,  and 
Edward  Payson,  who  was  born  in  the  same  city  in  February,  1896.  At 
present  he  is  at  "  Greendale  Earm, "  near  Media,  Pennsylvania. 

Our  Class  President  has  favored  us  with  a 

BovAiRD,  David,  Jr.  most  interesting  account  of  himself.     We  do 

not  need  to  call  attention  to  it,  however.     For 

if  any  of  our  number  has  a  warm   place  in  every  classmate's  heart  it  is 

David  Bovaird.     He  writes  : 


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"  Looking  back  over  the  past  four  years,  they  seem  poor  indeed  in 
anything  that  might  interest  the  Class,  When  I  wrote  for  the  last  Record 
I  was  just  about  to  leave  hospitals  for  the  active  practice  of  medicine  in 
New  York  city.  I  have  been  at  it  steadily  since  then.  Work  has  been  the 
order  of  the  day  '  from  early  morn  till  dewy  eve,'  and  sometimes  from  the 
dewy  eve  till  morn  again.  Although  progress  has  seemed  very  slow,  still 
I  can  chronicle  one  distinct  and  not  unimportant  gain.  I  have  a  wife. 
But  I  am  not  going  to  disturb  the  family  peace  of  '89  by  giving  you  my 
thoughts  on  that  subject.  Did  you  notice  how  patriotically  I  did  my  part 
in  booming  the  Anglo-American  alliance  ?  In  doing  so  I  had  to  go  some 
distance.  (Bovaird  was  married  to  Miss  Louise  Larkin,  of  Woodbridge, 
SuflFolk,  England,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  on  December  27,  1898.)  The 
only  '89  man  present  at  the  wedding  was  Sam  Thorpe,  but  as  usual  Sam 
was  a  host  in  himself.  When  I  heard  of  his  coming  I  warned  every  one 
to  exert  their  influence  to  restrain  him,  but  it  was  no  use.  The  evidence 
of  his  thoughtfulness  went  with  us  for  many  miles  and  many  days.  I  am 
looking  to  the  future  for  an  opportunity  to  show  my  appreciation  of  his 
kind  attentions. 

•'  I  rejoice  that  I  am  still  in  New  York,  where  so  many  of  our  Class 
are  gathered,  and  where  from  time  to  time  we  are  cheered  by  the  appear- 
ance of  some  of  our  friends  from  the  suburbs.  Morris  rolls  up  from  New 
Orleans,  Rocky  Bonsai  emerges  from  some  vale  in  the  South,  Dune  Taylor 
ferries  the  rolling  Hudson,  or  the  Thrapps  sail  in  on  a  Western  cyclone. 
In  one  way  or  another  we  see  our  old  friends,  recall  our  halcyon  days, 
and  renew  the  friendships  that  are  the  best  part  of  life.  Such  experiences 
are  in  themselves  almost  sufficient  to  make  one  content  to  work  hard  and 
wait  for  the  good  time  to  come,  when  we  shall  no  longer  be  clinging  to 
the  lower  rounds  of  the  ladder. 

"  Altogether,  I  am  not  discontented  with  what  the  years  have  thus 
far  brought  either  to  myself  or  my  friends  in  '89.  Even  now  one  can  see 
here  and  there  a  familiar  head  rising  above  his  surroundings,  and  I  am 
confident  that  by  the  time  of  another  Reunion  we  shall  have  an  honor  list 
of  which  we  can  be  permanently  proud.  For  one  I  am  looking  forward 
eagerly  to  the  days  of  our  Reunion,  and  I  shall  try  to  make  the  most  of 
them,  remembering  that  it  will  be  long  before  we  meet  again.  I  shall  go 
back  to  Princeton  with  a  heart  fuller  tban  ever  of  gratitude  for  the  chance 
that  led  me  there,  more  appreciative  of  the  friends  my  college  days  gave 
me,  and  more  devoted  to  the  Alma  Mater  whose  sweet  influences  give 
added  value  to  every  day  of  life.'' 


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For  the  benefit  of  our  brethren  of  the  medical  persuasion  we  append 
the  accompanying  list  of  Bovaird's  appointments  and  productions  :  Path- 
ologist to  the  New  York  Foundling  Hospital,  1896  to  present;  Assistant 
Surgeon  New  York  Orthopedic  Dispensary,  1896  to  date  ;  Clinical  Assist- 
ant to  the  chair  of  Pediatrics  in  the  University  and  Bellevue  Hospital 
Medical  College,  1896  to  date ;  Attending  Physician  to  the  St.  John's 
Guild  Seaside  Hospital,  May,  1899,  to  date. 

Article  on  Diphtheria  in  Sajou's  Annual  and  Analytical  Cyclopedia 
of  Modern  Medicine  ;  F.  P.Davis  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  1898.  Articles  on 
Intubation  and  Pseudomembraneous  Laryngitis  in  Keating's  Cyclopedia 
of  Diseases  of  Children;  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  1899. 
Articles  on  Scurvy  in  Infants ;  Philadelphia  Medical  Journal,  1898. 
Articles  on  Cerebral  Paralysis  ;  Archives  of  Pediatries,  1899.  Article  on 
Tuberculosis  in  Children  ;  New  York  Medical  Journal,  1899.  Article 
on  Scurvy  in  Starr's  "  Diseases  of  Children,"  1898. 

Among  the  eleventh  hour  arrivals  was  this, 
Boyle,  Edward  L.  but  we  were  none  the  less  glad  to  receive  it 

on  that  account.  We  never  did  like  to  answer 
"  not  prepared,"  not  even  when  examined  as  to  our  knowledge  of  a  class- 
mate's doings.  Boyle  says  of  himself:  "I  have  deferred  answering 
your  circular  in  the  hope  of  giving  the  matter  enough  thought  and  atten- 
tion to  avoid  an  uninteresting  narrative  of  bald  facts,  as  you  aptly 
express  it.  But  as  I  did  not  enlist  for  the  late  war,  I  feel  that  it  is  my 
duty  to  lay  low  this  trip  and  let  the  heroes  howl. 

"My  home  address  is  Central  Avenue,  Memphis,  Tennessee.  My 
business  address  is  16  Madison  Street,  Memphis,  Tennessee.  I  am  still 
practising  law.  I  married  Miss  Imogene  Snowden,  January  5,  1898,  in 
Memphis,  Tennessee.  I  have  a  little  daughter,  whose  name  is  Mar- 
garet. She  was  born  on  November  9,  1898,  at  our  home  in  this  city.  I 
have  never  held  office.  I  received  my  B.L.  from  the  University  of  Vir- 
ginia in  1891.  I  have  neither  written  a  book  nor  patented  an  invention 
since  1895.  While  there  are  manj'^  Princetonians  here,  I  am  the  only 
representative  of  1889  in  this  part  of  the  State  of  Tennessee." 

From  217  St.  James  Place,  Brooklyn,  N. 

Braislin,  William  C.  Y.,  Braislin  writes  us  this  interesting  account 

of  his  doings  : 

"  Your  decennial  letter  dated  April  first  reached  me  without  difliculty 

but  its  duplicate  already  received  prompts  me  to  hasten  if  I  would  not  ere 


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long  receive  another  hint.  It  is  evident  to  the  reader  that  the  writer  of 
that  letter  knows  what  he  wants  and  means  to  have  it,  and  as  I  have  a 
decidedly  respectful  attitude  towards  such  I  write  you  now. 

"The  answers  to  your  first  four  questions  are  the  same  as  those  that 
appeared  in  the  Sexennial  Record.  The  same  also  to  the  fifth  except  that 
instead  of  one  boy  preparing  for  Princeton  there  are  now  two.  The  second, 
John  Cameron  Braislin,  born  March  5,  1896,  is  three  years  old  and  well 
started  on  the  way.  The  elder  boy,  "William  Donald,  now  almost  six,  can 
spell  Princeton,  and  has  had,  on  several  occasions,  the  towers  of  Nassau 
Hall  pointed  out  to  him  from  a  passing  train  as  the  place  '  where  papa 
used  to  go  to  school.' 

' '  Regarding  literary  efforts  all  that  I  have  done  has  been  in  direct  line 
with  my  professional  work.  My  more  ambitious  effort  has  been  the  edi- 
torship of  the  American  Medical  Review^  which  so  nearly  '  doubled  me 
up '  physically  that  I  retired  at  the  end  of  a  year  with  a  most  decorous 
regard  for  things  editorial.  At  present  I  am  not  willing  to  risk  my  life  in 
another  such  undertaking.  The  periodical,  however,  strange  to  say,  sur- 
vived my  term  and  is  a  financial  success,  so  I  am  assured.  A  few  papers 
upon  topics  in  the  line  of  my  chosen  specialty,  Otology  and  the  rest  of  it, 
from  time  to  time  have  appeared,  and  have  quietly  sunk  into  the  great  pool 
of  medical  literature  with  scarcely  a  ripple.  Besides  this  I  lay  claim  to  a 
part  in  the  series  of  articles  upon  health  and  the  prevention  of  diseases 
which  make  a  periodical  appearance  in  the  Vozith's  Companion  without 
signature. 

"I  rarely  see  a  Princeton  man  though  I  recently  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  Speer  for  a  moment  at  Trenton.  I  hear  of  the  doings  of  the  many 
medical  men  of  our  Class  with  perhaps  the  greatest  interest,  and  absorb 
stray  particles  of  news  of  the  doings  of  all  with  the  pride  which  every 
member  of  a  Princeton  class  feels  in  being  in  some  way  related  to  the  rest. 

' '  I  am  looking  forward  with  a  great  deal  of  interest  to  the  forthcom- 
ing Decennial  Record,  and  to  the  great  mass  of  news  from  the  men  which 
you  with  so  much  energy  are  collecting,  and  for  which  I,  my  dear  Mudge, 
tender  you  my  heartiest  thanks." 

Among  the  very  first  replies  which  we 
Braxton,  William  D.  received  to  our  circular  requesting  informa- 

tion was  this  from  Bratton  : 
"Those  who  have  but  little  to  tell  should  certainly  reply  to  your 
Decennial  Record  circular  with  promptness,  and  as  that  is  my  case,  I 


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will  comply  promptly.  Since  our  last  Record  my  time  has  been  devoted 
to  the  management  of  the  '  Cecil  County  News,'  at  which  work  I  will  con- 
tinue for  the  present,  at  least.  Perhaps  your  specific  questions  can  best 
be  answered  in  the  order  in  which  they  occur.  My  address  is  Elkton, 
Maryland.  I  am  the  editor  of  a  weekly  paper.  I  am  neither  married 
nor  engaged.  I  m&y  best  answer  the  remainder  of  your  circular  with  a 
general  negative. 

"  You  see  it  takes  but  a  few  lines  to  complete  my  record  of  four 
years,  so  I  will  mercifully  allow  you  all  your  time  for  sketches  of  more 
interesting  subjects.  And  therein  I  yet,am  selfish,  for  no  one  enjoys  the 
excellent  Records  you  furnish  us  more  than  your  old  classmate  and  friend, 
W.  D.  Bratton." 

We  were  greatly  pleased  to  receive  this 
Breckinridge,  Desha  prompt  response  from   Breckinridge.      The 

Class  will  be  glad  to  learn  what  he  has  to  say 
about  himself: 

"  The  circular  of  April  first,  asking  for  information  of  all  the  mem- 
bers of  the  class  of  1889  is  just  received  by  me,  and  I  will  first  answer  the 
numbered  questions  in  their  order  : 

Ist.     Lexington,  Kentucky. 

2d.     Printery  Building,  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

3d.     Newspaper. 

4th.  I  was  married  on  the  seventeenth  day  of  November,  1898,  at 
'  Ashland,'  near  Lexington,  Kentucky,  to  Miss  Madeleine  McDowell. 

7th.  I  was  for  three  years,  from  1895  to  1898,  Deputy  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  the  Seventh  Collection  District  of  Kentucky.  In 
June,  1898, 1  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Third  United  States 
Volunteer  Engineers,  and  detailed  for  duty  as  aide  to  Major  General  J.  C. 
Breckinridge,  serving  with  him  as  such  until  December  19,  1898,  when 
my  resignation  was  accepted. 

"  I  have  no  answer  to  make  to  the  8th,  nor  have  I  any  answer  to 
9th  question.  I  have  written  no  books  or  pamphlets,  and  the  only  articles 
I  have  written  have  been  for  the  '  Morning  Herald,'  of  which  I  have  been 
manager  since  the  nineteenth  of  January,  1897. 

"  The  only  classmate  I  have  here  is  J.  Rogers  Barr.  He  is  V^ice- 
President  and  General  Manager  of  the  Lexington  and  Eastern  Railroad, 


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and  is  rapidly  making  a  very  enviable  reputation  among  railroad  men  as 
well  as  ariiong  all  those  who  come  in  contact  with  him.  He  is  married 
and  has  two  children. " 

Just  after  the  publication  of  the  Sex- 
Broadwell,  William  J.  ennial  Record  your  Secretary  learned  that 

Broadwell  could  be  found  at  60  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  We  immediately  mailed  him  a  copy  of  the  Record  and 
a  note  requesting  information  concerning  his  life  and  fortunes,  and  receiv- 
ed this  in  reply : 

"  The  writer  is  the  grateful  recipient  of  the  Sexennial  Record  of  the 
Class  of  1889,  and  has  read  with  pleasure  the  doings  and  happenings  of 
the  various  members.  Personally,  I  doubt  much  if  my  movements  will 
prove  of  much  interest  to  the  boys.  I  will  only  say  that  I  married  Miss 
Florence  Cudlipp  of  this  city  in  February,  1894,  and  am  the  happy  father 
of  a  bouncing  boy,  born  April  4,  1895,  Earl  William  Broadwell  by 
name.  My  business  address  is  60  Broadway.  As  a  member  of  the  Consoli" 
dated  Exchange,  my  principal  occupation  is  watching  others  make  or 
lose  the  illusive  dollar.  My  home  address  is  125th  Street  and  Anthony 
Avenue,  where  any  and  all  classmates  will  find  a  warm  welcome  when- 
ever it  may  please  them  to  look  in  on  me.  Unfortunately  I  have  seen 
very  few  of  the  boys  in  the  years  past." 

Early  in  January,  1897,  we  heard  from  Broadwell  again.  This  time 
he  wrote  from  the  offices  of  B.  F.  Jones  &  Co.,  Dealers  in  Choice  Invest- 
ment Securities,  Suite  36,  Traders'  Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  as 
follows : 

"  I  am  at  present  the  tail  end  of  the  above  outfit.  My  address  can 
be  put  down  to  that  effect.  I  have  some  other  arrangements  on  hand, 
however,  that  will  probably  take  me  back  to  my  old  stamping  ground.  If 
such  proves  the  case  will  let  you  know." 

Unfortunately,  he  did  not  let  us  know,  and  therefore  we  are  unable 
to  furnish  the  Class  with  any  further  information  concerning  him  save 
this,  that  he  is  supposed  to  be  in  Chicago  and  to  be  engaged  in  the  grain 
business. 

Brooks  thus  speaks  for  himself: 
Brooks,  John  M.  "I  should  like  to  answer  your  letter  'fully 

and  freely,'  as  you  request,  but  I  really  can  find 
very  little  to  write  about. 


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"  I  have  been  in  Princeton  teaching  Mathematics  in  the  School  of 
Science  since  the  Sexennial  Report  was  published,  and  each  year  is  very 
much  like  the  others.  The  changes  in  the  courses  and  students  furnish 
variety  and  interest  to  the  life,  but  otherwise  it  is  very  much  the  same. 
Those  of  our  Class  who  are  located  here  in  Princeton  I  see  a  great  deal  of, 
but  they  will  write  for  themselves,  so  I  need  not." 

Brooks  responds  to  our  specific  questions  with  a  general  negative. 

Unfortunately  Browning  is  very  brief. 
Browning,  J.  Prentiss  "We  regret  that  he  was  not  present  at  the  Re- 

union, for  we  had  hoped  that  it  would  in- 
spire him  to  try  again.     This,  however,  is  all  we  have  to  print: 

"  In  answer  to  your  letter  of  inquiry  I  can  only  say  that  I  have  been 
practicing  law  since  graduation.  At  present  my  office  is  in  the  Empire 
Building,  71  Broadway,  New  York  City.  My  house  address  is  302  West 
Seventy-second  Street.  On  May  10,  1893,  I  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
Work  Olcott,  of  this  city.  For  a  matter  of  six  years  I  was  Official  Sec- 
retary to  Judge  H.  W.  Bookstaver,  which  is  the  extent  of  my  claims  to 
distinction.     I  hope  to  be  able  to  attend  the  Reunion.'' 

Here  is  a  breezy  letter  from  "Bum," 
Brownlee,  Arthur  A.  written  out  of  "  the  bosom  of  the  West." 

"  For  the  Class  Record  I  have  this  to  say 
since  you  last  wrote  me  up.  The  summer  of  1895  I  took  a  trip  with  the 
Princeton  Geological  Expedition  through  Wyoming,  the  Yellowstone 
Park  and  Montana.  We  were  supposed  to  have  been  captured  by  Ban- 
nock Indians,  but  there  was  nothing  in  it,  more  than  this,  that  there  was 
an  Indian  upraising,  or  a  white  man's  downtrodding,  depending  on  how 
vividly  Fenimore  Cooper's  novels  impressed  you.  But  a  liberal  education 
saved  us,  in  that  we  had  learned  that  snow  would  produce  'cold  feet,' 
and  thus  more  or  less  dampen  the  war-like  spirit.  So  we  took  to  the 
hills,  and  for  nine  days  we  enjoyed  the  immunity  aiforded  by  the  per- 
petual snow,  on  the  top  of  the  continental  divide,  and  thus  escaped  with 
nothing  more  serious  than  a  premature  obituary.  Returning  to  the  rail- 
road at  Casper,  Wyoming,  after  sixty-three  days'  horseback  riding,  I 
found  your  Record  of  the  Class  issued  that  year.  To  say  that  I  enjoyed  it 
is  too  faint  praise  for  such  a  fine  piece  of  work. 


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"Sickness  and  death  in  my  family  compelled  me,  after  graduating 
from  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  to  go  into  business.  I  am  con- 
nected with  the  Colorado  Ore  Reduction  Company  (he  is  its  President), 
which  has  its  Eastern  office  at  63  Wall  street,  New  York  City,  and  its 
works  at  Elkton,  Cripple  Creek  Mining  District,  Colorado. 

"  I  am  also  the  President  of  a  zinc  and  lead  company,  operating  in 
the  Joplin  district,  Missouri.  I  also  have  some  interests  in  the  Klon- 
dike. In  general,  I  can  say  that  I  am  having  as  much  success  as  I  de- 
serve. The  fall  and  winter  of  1896,  in  company  with  John  W.  Garrett, 
of  the  class  of  1895,  I  took  a  long  horseback  trip  through  Colorado,  New 
Mexico  and  Arizona,  and  visited  the  Grand  Canyon.  We  also  took 
another  trip  the  summer  of  1897  through  New  Mexico  and  Colorado. 

"My  address  is  63  Wall  street.  New  York  City.  I  am  neither 
married  nor  engaged.  I  have  received  no  honors  or  titles,  written  no 
books  and  patented  no  inventions.  But  good  luck  to  such  as  have.  My 
outspoken  ambition  is  to  hold  my  place  as  one  of  the  Grand  Sachems  of 
'  The  Order  of  Ancient  and  Loyal  Kooters  '  at  all  Princeton  contests." 

We  wish  to  assure  the  Class  that  at  the  Reunion  "  Bum  "  proved  to 
the  satisfaction  of  all  present  that  his  "  rooting  "  abilities  had  waxed 
rather  than  waned  since  last  we  met  together.  May  his  voice  maintain 
its  strength  and  his  arms  their  length  until  we  meet  again. 


Carter  thus  writes  to  us  from  Hunting- 
Carter,  G.  Herbert  ton.  Long  Island.     We  publish  his  letter,  as 

he  desires,  in  full : 

"  My  life  since  1895,  while  of  great  interest  to  myself,  would  not 
furnish  much  of  that  article  to  the  rest  of  the  Class. 

"I  continue  as  a  'country  doctor'  to  wear  out  wagon  tires  and 
horseflesh  ;  to  reap  a  large  harvest  of  such  experiences  as  only  a  country 
doctor  can  tell  of,  or  pass  through  and  tell  nothing  of;  to  labor  under  a 
conflict  of  convictions,  viz.,  increasing  admiration  for  a  lifework  so  full  of 
opportunities  for  doing  good  and  increasing  apprehension  of  my  own  lack 
of  knowledge,  ignorance  to  put  it  plainly,  in  the  face  of  the  multiform 
phases  of  disease. 

"I  continue  to  be  married  to  Miss  Cora  Brush.  We  have  two 
children,  Dorothy  Jeannette  Carter,  born  here  October  4,  1895,  and 
Frederick  Herbert  Carter,  born  May  23,  1898. 


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"My  official  positions  are,  in  a  small  way,  what  occasionally  come  to 
professional  men  in  a  country  town  ;  Superintendent  of  a  Sunday  School, 
where  I  teach  a  class,  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  our  day 
school,  and  we  have  one  of  the  finest  in  the  State — six  hundred  scholars, 
and  have  prepared  a  number  of  fellows  for  Princeton  and  Yale. 

"  I  have  had  two  articles  on  hospital  life  based  on  my  Roosevelt  Hos- 
pital experience  published  in  the  '  Church  Union.'  That  is  the  extent  of 
my  literarj'  attainments. 

"  I  wanted  to  attend  the  Decennial  but  a  recent  communication  from 
Waters  has  about  discouraged  me.  If  I  should  attend  it  would  be  with 
other,  and  I  hope  better  aims  than  the  guzzling  of  beer,  and  I  further 
hope  that  any  memories  or  associations  of  said  Decennial  will  not  centre 
around  a  beer  mug.  It  is  all  right  perhaps  for  those  whose  aspirations  do 
so  centre  to  exert  themselves  in  that  line,  but  I  confess  1  resent  their  as- 
sumption of  a  right  to  make  my  Decennial  revolve  around  any  such  centre. 
I  am  sure  I  express  the  feeling  of  others  of  the  class.  (You  may  suppress 
this  as  you  did  Jesse  Hunter's  remarks  about  our  Triennial  but  I  hope  you 
wont. ) 

"  I  am  afraid  there  will  be  not  a  few  who  anticipated  the  Decennial 
with  great  pleasure  who  will  doubt  their  desire  to  be  present  after  receiv- 
ing Waters'  communication. 

"I  have  seen  almost  nothing  of  '89  men  in  the  past  few  years,  but 
hope  I  may  be  more  fortunate  in  the  future." 

Writing  from  632  South  Ingalls  Street,  Ann 
Chase,  William  S.  Arbor,  Michigan,  Chase  says  of  himself : 

"  Your  circular  of  April  first,  forwarded  to 
271  West  Market  Street,  Akron,  O.,  reached  me  to-day.  One  cause  of  the 
delay  in  transit  is  that  I  have  not  '  inhabited  '  that  address  for  about  seven 
years.  I  cannot  tell  where  I  will  be  in  the  future,  but  you  might  book 
my  present  residence  as  980  East  Market  Street,  Akron,  0.  At  any  rate 
all  communications  will  be  forwarded  to  me  from  there. 

"  I  certainly  agree  with  you  that  the  success  of  the  Record  depends 
upon  a  free  response  from  all  members  of  the  Class,  and  I  wish  I  were  in 
a  position  to  write  an  interesting  letter  on  '  degrees  received,  books  written 
and  inventions  patented,'  but  unfortunately  I  am  not. 

"  About  the  only  thing  I  have  done  since  1895  is  to  throw  aside  news- 
paper work  for  the  study  of  medicine,  a  sort  of  double  somersault  perform- 


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ance  which  may  surprise  some  of  the  more  mature  M.  D.'s  of  the  Class. 
The  only  excuse  I  can  offer  is  a  failure  to  realize  earlier  in  life  a  spark  of 
truth  in  the  old  proverb  that  '  at  forty  every  man  is  either  a  fool  or  a  physi- 
cian.' In  order  to  escape  being  trauxed  by  one  horn  of  the  dilemma  pre- 
sented I  boldly  grasped  the  other.  I  have  been  studying  for  two  years  at 
the  University  of  Michigan,  and  may  come  back  for  work  next  year. 
Kindest  regards  to  you,  and  through  you  to  the  Class." 

Chase  was  married  to  Miss  Grace  I.  Seiberling,  of  Akron,  Ohio,  on 
September  1,  1892.  He  has  no  children.  We  wish  him  every  success  in 
his  newly  chosen  profession,  and  trust  that  the  next  Eecord  will  find  him 
firmly  established  in  a  fine  practice. 

Here  is  a  letter  well  worth  reading. 
Church,  Frederic  J.  "Would  that  we  had  a  score  of  others  like  it. 

If  any  of  our  members  are  smitten  with  the 
"  gold  fever,"  we  would  prescribe  its  perusal  as  a  sure  cure  therefor  : 

"  Your  printed  letter  of  April  first,  forwarded  from  Seattle,  reached 
me  yesterday,  and  I  hasten  to  answer.  As  you  already  have  my  private 
history  up  to  June,  1895,  there  is  no  use  in  going  over  that  again.  Since 
then  I  have  had  a  decidedly  checkered  career.  Finding  it  necessary,  in 
order  to  obtain  title  to  my  homestead  claim,  I  left  the  Oregon  Improve- 
ment Company  in  August,  1895,  and  went  out  on  my  ranche  in  Mason 
County,  Washington,  on  Lake  Cushman,  now  a  portion  of  the  United 
States  Olympic  Forest  Keserve.  There  I  remained  until  September,  1897, 
perfecting  the  title  with  the  government,  however,  in  April  of  the  same 
year.  Two  summers  I  spent  in  prospecting  and  hunting  with  gun  and 
camera  in  the  Olympic  mountains — one  winter  in  trapping,  sawing  wood, 
etc.  Financially,  I  played  even,  that  was  all.  A  number  of  articles  of 
mine,  one  or  two  of  them  illustrated,  appeared  in  Recreation  in  June 
and  August,  I  think,  and  one  or  two  later. 

"  In  the  fall  of  1897  I  moved  to  Tacoma,  where  I  loafed  principally, 
■with  a  little  newspaper  work  thrown  in,  until  February,  1898,  when  I 
went  north  with  the  other  49,999  chumps  in  the  search  for  gold,  with  a 
two  years'  outfit.  Eeaching  Dj^ea,  I  made  up  my  mind  that  I  could  hire 
my  goods  put  on  top  of  the  Chilcoot  Summit,  and  then  work  it  out  much 
quicker  and  cheaper  than  I  could  put  them  there  myself.  So  I  did  so, 
going  to  work  driving  a  dog  team  for  J.  J.  McKay,  an  old  Yukoner,  at 
four  dollars  a  day  and  board,  working  seven  days  in  the  week.     In  a  short 


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time  my  wage  was  raisad,  and  on  April  first  I  was  given  the  management 
of  the  whole  business,  the  biggest  freighting  outfit  on  the  Yukon.  Atone 
time  I  had  sixtj^-three  dogs,  twenty-two  horses  and  twenty-four  men  buck- 
ing the  never  ceasing  blizzard.  Football,  as  compared  with  dog  freight- 
ing, is  mere  child's  play.  We  would  leave  Lake  Lindcman  at  midnight 
and  go  to  the  summit  of  the  Chilcoot  Pass,  a  distance  of  twelve  miles, 
each  day,  get  a  load  of  eight  to  twelve  hundred  pounds  on  the  sled,  driv- 
ing seven  to  nine  dogs,  and  in  the  round  trip  of  twenty-four  miles  going 
up  and  down  over  four  thousand  feet.  I  had  one  minister,  two  lawyers 
and  a  number  of  football  men  driving  for  me,  but  none  of  them  could 
stand  the  pace  for  more  than  a  few  weeks.  We  slept  in  a  tent  in  that 
Arctic  winter,  packed  like  sardines  on  raised  bunks,  with  all  the  dogs  tied 
underneath.  The  odor  and  row  at  night  can  better  be  imagined  than 
described.  When  I  became  manager  I  had  my  own  tent  and  was  more 
comfortable,  although  I  worked  myself  out  and  nearly  joined  the  thous- 
ands of  others  who  left  their  bones  in  the  country. 

"  On  the  sixth  of  June  the  snow  played  out  on  the  trail,  and  we  started 
down  the  Yukon  with  four  big  scows,  all  the  horses  and  dogs  and  some 
sixty  people.  Summer  on  the  great  river  of  the  north  is  as  beautiful  as 
the  winter  is  infernal.  One  pest,  however,  the  mosquito,  is  almost  un- 
bearable, necessitating  camping  on  open  points  or  anchoring  out  in  mid- 
stream. The  dreaded  White  Horse  Kapids  I  ran  several  times,  and  thor- 
oughly enjoyed  it ;  in  fact,  never  had  such  sport  in  my  life.  One  trip, 
when  the  scow  got  away  from  us,  we  started  into  the  White  Horse  with 
two  sweeps  broken  out  of  four,  at  11:45  p.  m.,  and  after  saying  good-bye 
to  the  world  a  dozen  times,  pulled  through  all  right.  Reaching  Dawson 
on  June  eighteenth,  I  saw  all  the  sights,  saw  prices  of  goods  and  labor 
dropping  day  by  day  ;  saw  fifty  men  for  each  job  and  extortionate  laws 
by  the  government  that  were  prohibitive,  while  the  death  rate  was  from 
fifteen  to  twenty-five  per  cent.  I  then  had  an  opportunity  to  sell  my  outfit, 
■which  was  unbroken,  for  a  couple  of  hundred  per  cent,  on  the  cost,  and 
accordingly  did  so  and  came  up  the  riyeron  the  '  Willie  Irving,'  the  first 
steamer  to  go  up  the  Five  Finger  Eapids  without  roping. 

"  Reaching  the  While  Horse,  we  found  no  steamer  connections  with 
the  head  of  the  river.  Many  who  came  with  me  intended  to  go  back  and 
were  in  hot  haste,  and  as  they  offered  two  hundred  dollars  to  any  one 
who  would  go  up  in  a  Peterborough  canoe  after  a  steamer,  a  Dutch- 
man and  myself  accepted.     We  made  it  from  the  White  Horse  to  Skaguay 


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between  6  p.  m.  Saturday  and  9:30  a.  m.  Tuesday,  with  only  four  hours 
sleep,  or  rather  I  did,  for  the  Dutchman  collapsed  at  Lake  Bennett.  I 
caught  the  steamer  and  earned  my  money,  but  lost  fourteen  pounds  on 
the  trip. 

' '  Reaching  Paget  Sound,  I  loafed  again  in  Tacoma  for  a  few  months  and 
then  came  down  here  to  Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands,  and  feel  that  I  have 
struck  what  is  known  in  western  parlance  as  '  God's  country'  at  last.  By  the 
way,  during  my  stay  in  Alaska  and  the  Northwest  territory,  I  was  regular 
correspondent  for  the  Tacoma  '  Daily  Ledger,'  and  wrote  quite  a  little  for 
the  Seattle  'Post  Intelligencer.'  In  September,  1898,  I  made  a  large 
topographical  map  of  the  Olympic  Forest  Reserve.  This  map  has  been 
adopted  as  the  official  map  by  the  Commissioners  and  filed  in  Washington. 

"  Here  in  Honolulu  I  have  gone  into  partnership  with  C.  E.  LeMun- 
yon,  for  the  past  eight  years  scenic  artist  for  the  Great  Northern  Railroad, 
under  the  firm  name  of  '  The  LeMunyon  Photo-Supply  Co.,'  dealing  in 
views,  amateur  trade  and  supplies  of  all  kinds,  and  I  think  we  will  make 
a  killing  of  it.  This  is  a  lovely  place,  with  perfect  climate,  and  the  nicest 
lot  of  people  I  ever  met,  and  I  feel  that  there  are  great  chances  ahead 
here.  If  any  Princeton  men  want  any  information  concerning  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  I  will  only  too  gladly  answer  any  and  all  questions, 
with  the  humble  suggestion  to  those ,  writing  that  postage  here  is  five 
cents  per  half  ounce,  and  that  any  shortage  is  charged  double  at  this  end. 
This  looks  like  a  small  matter,  but  my  excess  postage  last  month  was 
$4.92,  a  considerable  item. 

"  In  the  summer  of  1897  I  was  fortunate  enough  to  win  the  '  Yes  '  of 
Miss  Elizabeth  Elliott  Styne,  a  Tacoma  girl,  formerly  of  Canton,  Ohio, 
who  is  to  me  of  course  the  personification  of  all  that  is  loveliest  and  best 
in  woman,  and  we  hope  to  be  married  by  the  first  of  the  year  if  my  busi- 
ness prospers  as  it  should.  She  and  her  people  have  moved  to  Honolulu 
to  live,  so  methinks  that  I  am  a  decided  fixture  in  the  Paradise  of  the 
Pacific. 

"  Would  that  I  could  be  with  you  all  in  June.  Yale  and  Harvard 
men  are  rampant  here,  but  Princeton  men  few  and  far  between.  Ned 
Dorsett,  '87,  two  Waterhouse  boys  of  the  '90s,  and  myself  being  the  sum 
total.  Be  sure  and  send  me  the  Decennial  Record  and  call  upon  me  for 
class  expenses.     Kindest  regards  to  you  and  all  my  old  classmates." 

Success  to  you.  Church  1  Settle  down  now  to  the  certainties  of  life 
and  be  satisfied  therewith.  Our  congratulations  on  your  engagement,  and 
may  your  hopes  for  the  future  be  fully  realized. 


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Coale  writes :     "  In  reply  to  the  series  of  in- 
COALE,  Isaac  P.  quiries  in  your  circular  letter  of  the  first  instant  I 

would  say  : 

"  My  home  address — if  a  man  who  boards  can  be  said  to  have  a  home 
— is  No.  132  West  Eighty-second  Street,  New  York  City.  The  family, 
as  you  are  aware,  lives  in  Toms  River,  New  Jersey.  My  business  address 
is  No.  7  Pine  Street,  New  York  City.  My  present  occupation  is  that  of 
attorney  and  counsellor-at-law.  I  am  neither  married  nor  engaged.  The 
only  degree  that  I  have  received  since  graduation  is  an  '  LL.B.'  from  the 
New  York  Law  School. 

"  Since  you  request  a  narrative  of  my  experiences  during  the  last 
four  years,  I  would  say  that  the  summer  of  our  sexennial  year  was  spent 
partly  in  a  law  office  in  New  York  and  partly  in  Mt.  Carmel,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  I  was  engaged  in  private  tutoring.  In  the  fall  of  1895  I 
entered  a  law  office  as  a  clerk,  and  after  one  or  two  changes  of  offices,  I 
engaged  in  the  summer  of  1896  in  work  at  Philadelphia  upon  a  Digest 
of  Pennsylvania  decisions.  After  completing  my  work  on  the  Digest  I 
prepared  the  notes  for  a  portion  of  an  advance  of  Blackstone's  Commen- 
taries, and  in  October,  1896,  I  entered  the  law  office  of  Parker  &  Scudder, 
181  Broadway.  I  have  been  with  Mr.  Scudder  of  this  firm  ever  since, 
and  since  May  1,  1899,  we  have  been  practicing  under  the  partnership 
name  of  Scudder  &  Coale,  at  No.  7  Pine  Street,  New  York  City. 

"This  bare  outline  may  not  seem  satisfactory,  but  my  life  has  been 
so  uneventful  that  I  do  not  know  of  anything  else  worth  telling  or  insert- 
ing in  the  Class  Record." 

The  Class  will  surely  be  interested  in  this  record  of  Coale 's  steady 
advance.  "We  are  glad  to  learn  from  others  that  a  large  measure  of  suc- 
cess has  attended  his  etforts,  and  that  his  prospects  for  the  future  are 
bright. 

Charleston,    South    Carolina,    is    still 
Conner,  Henry  W.,  Jr.  blessed  with  the  presence  and  counsel  of 

Conner.     From  that   city  he  writes  us  as 
follows : 

"  I  am  sending  you  a  line  in  response  to  your  circular.  First  and 
particularly  I  have  to  regret  that  I  will  be  unable  to  attend  the  Decennial. 
I  have  been  looking  forward  to  the  pleasures  of  that  occasion  with  liveliest 
interest,  trusting  that  when  the  time  came  I  might  see  the  way  clear  to  join 
you,  but  this  hope  I  have  had  to  abandon,  and  do  so  with  the  greatest  regret. 


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"Since  the  last  class-book  I  have  to  record  my  marriage  on  July  6, 
1897,  to  Miss  Anna  M.  Yander  Horst,  of  this  city.  I  am  practicing  law 
at  the  old  stand,  where  any  one  with  a  grievance  and  a  check  is  made 
welcome.  Lately  I  have  had  the  good  fortune  of  seeing  some  of  the  Class 
in  these  parts,  the  sight  of  whom  gave  great  pleasure,  and  I  would  like  to 
think  that  others  of  the  Class  whom  I  would  be  pleased  to  see  will  find 
their  way  South.     My  best  wishes  for  the  Decennial." 

The  Class  shares  in  Conner's  regrets  over  his  inability  to  attend  the 
Decennial  Reunion.  Those  of  our  number  who  have  seen  him  in  Charles- 
ton tell  us  of  his  success  in  his  chosen  profession. 

Conover  says  :  "  I  suppose  your  next 
CONOVER,  A.  Edward,  Jr.  will  be  a  telegram  marked  '  collect '  if  I  do 

not  answer  your  questions.    So  here  goes  : 

"My home  address  is  No.  Ill  West  Seventy-sixth  Street,  and  my 
place  of  business,  7  and  9  West  Thirtieth  Street.  I  am  Treasurer  of  the 
Conover  Fireplace  Manufacturing  Company.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Irene 
Boynton  on  January  11,  1893,  in  New  York  City.  We  have  no  children. 
The  remaining  questions  contained  in  your  circular  may  be  answered  by 
the  single  word  '  No.'  " 

This  is  all  that  we  have  been  able  to  obtain  from  Conover  by  way  of 
information.  We  know,  however,  that  the  extent  of  this  letter  is  in  no 
way  a  measure  of  his  interest  in  and  devotion  to  the  Class.  His  services 
on  the  Class  Committee  for  New  York  City  have  been  constant  and  most 
cheerfully  given. 

Anything  that  Cook  may  say  is  of  interest  to 
Cook,  William  J.  the  Class,  but  we   would   call  special   attention 

to  his  remarks  about  the  undergraduate  body  of 
to-day.  He  has  had  excellent  opportunities  of  obtaining  an  inner  view  of 
the  student  life  at  Princeton  as  it  is,  and  therefore  his  opinion  is  well 
worth  having.  We  thank  him  for  it.  It  accords  entirely  with  our  own 
observations,  taken  though  they  have  been  from  an  entirely  different 
point  of  view.  We  commend  his  declarations  to  the  consideration  of 
those  who  have  been  afraid  that  the  New  Princeton  is  but  a  "  whitened 
sepulchre  full  of  dead  men's  bones."  In  the  name  of  the  Class  we  would 
also  thank  Cook  for  his  unselfish  interest  in  and  untiring  labors  for  ath- 


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letic  Princeton.  No  small  part  of  the  recent  successes  on  the  football 
field  is  due  to  his  energy  and  eflbrt.     Here  is  his  welcome  letter  : 

"  In  reply  to  your  circular  requesting  letter  and  answers  to  questions, 
I  will  send  you  these  few  lines.  I  have  been  struggling  with  this  hard, 
cold  world  ever  since  I  left  college.  I  do  not  believe  I  have  done  as  well 
as  the  wise  man  who  rolled  down  hill  with  the  log,  and  was  on  top  half 
of  the  time.  The  first  two  years  after  your  Sexennial  Record  I  spent  in 
the  wholesale  commission  business,  but  did  not  succeed  very  well,  and 
about  all  I  had  left  when  I  got  through  was  a  lot  of  good  experience. 
But  already  having  acquired  a  good  deal  of  that,  I  called  the  venture  a 
failure.  I  next  went  into  the  oil  business  with  Arbuthnot,  an  '87  man. 
My  relations  with  him  have  been  the  best.  We  had  varying  success. 
At  present  I  am  alone  in  the  work.  Though  oil  towns  generally  are  not 
the  verj'  best  places  in  the  world  to  live  in,  I  enjoy  the  work  and  am  getting 
along  nicely  now.  I  do  not  see  many  of  the  '89  boys,  only  as  I  go  back 
to  Princeton. 

"  I  might  mention  that  I  have  helped  coach  the  Princeton  football 
team  the  last  four  years.  That  has  kept  me  in  touch  with  Prince- 
ton and  more  or  less  acquainted  with  the  undergraduates  of  to-day. 
I  think  they  are  an  improvement  over  the  undergraduates  of  our  day  in 
about  the  same  proportion  as  the  University  has  changed  for  the  better. 
I  think  Princeton  has  been  greatly  benefited  by  the  high  standing  of  her 
athletics,  and  I  thought  what  little  time  I  had  to  devote  to  Princeton 
interests  could  best  be  put  in  by  helping  the  boj's  out  in  football.  I  only 
wish  I  could  have  done  more  than  I  did. 

' '  I  expect  to  follow  the  oil  business  in  the  future,  but  never  to  become 
a  member  of  the  'Standard.'  Still,  who  knows?  I  put  in  the  past 
winter  in  the  Scio  oil  field,  which  is  my  present  headquarters,  and  would 
be  more  than  glad  to  entertain  any  '89  men  who  get  to  stop  here. 

"  My  home  address  is  67  Liberty  Street,  Fredonia,  New  York,  and 
my  business  address,  Scio,  Ohio.  Present  occupation,  producer  of  petro- 
leum and  contractor.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Louise  Huyck,  October 
19,  1887,  in  Dunkirk,  New  York.  I  have  three  children,  as  follows  :  Frank 
Nelson  Cook,  born  April  16,  1889,  died  April  17,  1889  ;  Joseph  Ansel 
Cook,  born  January  5,  1892  ;  and  Emily  Sylvia  Cook,  born  May  16,  1895. 
' '  I  have  filled  no  position  under  question  seven,  nor  received  any  honors 
or  decorations  mentioned  in  question  eight,  nor,  in  fact,  anything  that 
applies  to  questions  nine,  ten  or  eleven  of  your  circular.    My  life  has  been 


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a  quiet,  domestic  one.  I  am  very  much  devoted  to  my  family,  and  prefer 
their  company  to  striving  after  political  honors,  which,  I  think,  has  a  ten- 
dency to  weaken  the  family  ties.  Now,  Mr.  Secretary,  you  may  eliminate 
as  much  of  this  as  you  think  best,  and  we  will  be  the  best  of  friends,  the 
same  as  ever." 

This  cordial  note  from  Elmira,  New  York, 
Curtis,  George  L.  came  promptly  to  hand  in  response  to  our  circular : 

"  In  reply  toyours  of  April  first,  I  take  pleas- 
ure in  assisting  your  efforts  with  my  mite. 

' '  For  the  last  five  years  my  life  has  been  one  steady  grind  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business,  forcing  a  wedge  into  an  already  well  filled 
field. 

"I  have  hardly  seen  or  heard  anything  of  classmates.  My  home 
address  is  357  College  Avenue,  and  I  am  in  business  for  myself  at  109  East 
Church  Street.  I  am  a  wholesale  grocer.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Kath- 
arine M.  Strang,  at  Elmira,  on  June  27,  1895.  "We  have  one  child,  a 
son,  born  March  20,  1899.  His  name  is  Gordon  Hayes  Curtis.  I  regret 
that  I  have  nothing  more  to  add." 

From  the  Law  Offices  of  Horton  &  Dene- 
Denegre,  James  D.  gre,   St.   Paul,  Minnesota,  came  this  welcome 

information  concerning  the  doings  of  Jim 
Denegre : 

"  I  have  an  instinctive  aversion  against  writing  autobiography  which 
is  hard  to  overcome.  Although  it  has  been  more  than  ten  years  since  we 
went  out  of  Dr.  Patton's  examination  on  Ethics  I  believe  I  should  prefer 
composing  an  essay  on  '  The  Metaphysical  Aspect  of  Oughtness,'  to  writ- 
ing fully  and  freely  of  my  experiences  in  the  last  four  years.  The  essay, 
I  am  sure,  would  be  the  more  interesting.  It  is  immaterial  where  I  take 
up  my  story  continued  from  the  Sexennial  Record,  for  my  life  since  1895 
has  been  utterly  devoid  of  anything  particularly  interesting,  exciting  or 
sensational.  I  am  still  practising  law  here  in  St.  Paul.  I  have  worked 
pretty  hard,  lived  fairly  well,  and  have  managed  to  enjoy  some  of  the 
good  things  of  life. 

"  The  only  thing  that  I  can  recall  doing  during  the  Olympiad  under 
consideration  at  all  at  variance  with  my  Democratic  conservatism,  was 
votingfor  McKinley  in  1896.  It  required  an  enormous  amount  of  courage, 
nerve  and  resolution  to  forsake  on  election  day  the  righteous  cause  of 


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Palmer  and  Buckner,  but  local  conditions  were  an  all-sufficient  and  justify- 
ing excuse.  I  presume,  however,  that  when  the  old  Democratic  Guard 
from  '89  assembles  in  June,  Colonel  Bill  Jenncy  will  have  me  court- 
martialed. 

"  I  find  the  questions  you  enclose,  excepting  the  first  three,  not  par- 
ticularly easy  to  answer.  My  home  address  and  present  occupation  you 
already  have,  and  my  business  address  is  at  the  top  of  this  letter  head. 
The  briefest  answer  I  can  make  to  numbers  four,  five,  and  six,  is  that  I 
am  not  now  and  never  have  been  engaged,  so,  therefore,  it  follows  that  I 
am  not  married,  and  have  no  children.  The  on]j  public  trusts  I  have  any 
recollection  of  holding  since  leaving  college  have  been  the  captaincy  of  a 
local  rowing  club,  and  the  presidency  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the 
University  of  Minnesota  Law  School. 

"  To  questions  eight  and  nine  I  have  nothing  new  to  add  since  my 
last  report. 

"Until  the  matrimonial  fever  got  in  its  deadly  work  upon  our  illus- 
trious Class  I  occasionally  had  the  honor  of  a  visit  from  some  Eighty-niner 
wandering  across  the  continent.  Phil  Rollins  had  three  or  four  girls  out  this 
way  whom  he  used  to  come  to  see  with  delightful  regularity.  David  Bovaird, 
Dune  Taylor  and  Bobby  Speer  also  honored  us  occasionally  in  their  bach- 
elor days,  but  during  the  last  year  or  so,  except  the  Thorpes,  who  live  in 
Minneapolis,  I  have  not  seen  an  '89  man  on  Minnesota  soil. 

"  We  have  here  a  fairly  prosperous  Alumni  Association,  which 
almost  every  year  has  a  banquet  and  musters  some  thirty  or  thirty-five 
loyal  Princetonians.  The  only  representatives  among  them  from  '89  are 
the  two  Thorpes  and  myself.  The  strength  of  '89,  however,  in  this  Com- 
monwealth has  been  very  recently  decreased  thirty-three  per  cent.,  for 
Jim  Thorpe,  as  you  have  been  doubtless  advised,  has  gone  to  make  his 
home  further  west  in  Denver,  Colorado.  While  there  are  but  few  Prince- 
ton men  in  these  twin  cities,  all  are  very  loyal.  Though  far  away  from 
the  old  college  we  manage  by  our  meetings  to  keep  alive  the  old  ties  and 
preserve  our  atfection  for  Princeton  and  all  its  fond  associations. 

"  You  can  put  me  down  as  one  of  those  who  will  answer  to  the  roll- 
call  at  the  Eeunion  in  June." 

He  was  there,  and  we  were  more  than  glad  to  see  him.  We  found 
him  the  same  old  fellow,  and  seemingly  not  a  day  older  than  when  he 
was  graduated. 


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Dix  has  written  himself  up  thusly  : 
Dix,  William  Frederick  "  After  a  reverent  perusal  of  those  two 

choicest  tomes  in  my  library,  the  Triennial 
and  Hexagonal  Record  of  the  Class  of  '89,  in  search  of  inspiration  for  my 
theme  to-day,  I  come,  in  despair,  incontinently  to  a  plain,  unvarnished 
statement  of  my  present  status  in  life.  It  is  useless  to  attempt  to  rival 
those  laurel-crowned  gems  of  literature,  the  letters  of  my  cherished  class- 
mates. 

"  I  am  still  living  in  East  Orange,  spoiling  some  excellent  manuscript 
paper  in  my  efforts  to  gladden  the  columns  of  several  New  York  maga- 
zines. I  am  also  attempting  to  add  to  the  lustre  of  the  Merrill-Dixonian 
School.  I  am  not  married  or  engaged,  and  have  not  yet  been  appointed 
judge,  admiral,  general,  bishop,  president  of  a  college,  or  master  of  cere- 
monies to  the  White  House.  One  of  my  most  prized  honors  is  being  a 
guest  at  '  The  Monastery  '  in  Princeton  occasionally — that  charming 
household  of  which  Prof.  H.  0.  Warren,  '89,  is  a  prominent  member. 

•'  I  have,  for  eight  years,  done  more  or  less  business  with  our  friends, 
the  Thorpes,  to  our  mutual  satisfaction,  and  last  summer,  while  inspecting 
some  land  under  the  tender  guidance  of  Jim,  nearly  disappeared  from 
society  by  getting  lost  in  a  ten  thousand  acre  swamp.  We  floundered  for 
hours  through  the  boggiest  bog  ever  known,  with  no  food  or  drink,  and 
only  one  pipe  to  smoke.  After  thirteen  hours'  wandering  we  at  last 
found  a  cabin,  supper  and  a  bunk,  and  subsequently  a  trail  that  led  back 
to  civilization. 

"  I  spent  part  of  the  winter  of  1886  abroad,  finding  health  after  too 
arduous  work  as  literar}'  editor  of  the  Churchman,  and  returning  the  fol- 
lowing year  to  Europe,  resided  in  Switzerland  from  October,  1897,  to 
December,  1898.  While  taking  a  six  weeks'  bicycle  trip  through  Italy, 
I  ran  across  Mount  on  Lake  Como,  and  we  prowled  around  together  a 
little.     Mount  has  acquired  the  Europe  habit,  too. 

"And  speaking  of  bicycling,  have  you  noticed  what  a  scorcher 
Howard  Warren  is  becoming?  He  rides  down  from  Princeton,  starting 
after  breakfast  and  dropping  in  here  for  luncheon,  and  then  goes  off  for  a 
ride  of  thirty  miles  or  so  in  the  afternoon  just  for  exercise.  Hotchkiss 
runs  out  now  and  then  from  town  and  sings  his  songs  as  merrily  as  ever^ 
Proudfit  came  in  like  a  comet  one  night  last  fall,  and  after  vainly  trying 
to  sell  me  a  gold  mine— his  pockets  were  full  of  dazzling  nuggets — flashed 
away  and  has  never  been  heard  from  since. 


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"  And  now,  behold  !  My  copy  is  finished  !  If  any  of  my  classmates 
read  it  I  am  amply  repaid.  I  am  looking  forward  with  pleasure  to  the 
Decennial  Reunion,  and  fully  expect  to  be  with  you  all  at  that  doubly 
joyful  occasion.  Doubly  joyful  because  we  will  all  be  together  again,  and 
because  we  are  all  ten  years  older.  You  see,  I  believe  with  Browning, 
'  the  best  is  vet  to  be.'  " 


"  Harry  Gurnee  Drummond  was  born 
Drummond,   Harry    G.  October  15,  1867,  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  which 

was  his  home,  except  during  the  years  from 
1876  to  1880,  when  his  family  lived  at  Madison,  N.  J.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  the  Newark  Academy. 

"  Entering  Princeton  with  the  Class  in  the  fall  of  1885,  he  soon  became 
known  as  a  hard  student  and  brilliant  scholar.  He  took  rank  among  the 
'  upper  ten  '  at  the  first  examination,  and  easily  maintained  this  place 
throughout  the  course.  In  Hall  he  was  active  in  all  lines  of  work.  "While 
not  excelling  in  debate,  his  clear  outlines  and  choice  expression  gave  him 
a  good  standing  even  among  more  oratorical  speakers.  "Writing  was  his 
strong  point,  however.  He  took  a  first  and  a  second  prize  in  the  two  Hall 
essay  contests  in  which  he  competed.  In  Junior  year  he  was  chosen  one 
of  the  two  managing  editors  of  the  Nassau  Lit.,  and  his  work  in  that 
capacity  marked  him  out  for  a  successful  career  in  literature,  had  he  wished 
to  take  it  up.  A  member  of  the  faculty,  who  was  qualified  to  judge, 
spoke  of  him  at  that  time  as  '  one  of  the  two  or  three  men  of  real  literary 
talent  that  Princeton  has  graduated  within  the  last  four  or  five  years.' 
Harry  was  a  representative  of  Clio  in   '89's  J.   O.  contest,  and  won  the 

Maclean  prize. 

"  On  leaving  college  Harry  went  into  business  with  his  father  in 
Newark,  and  was  soon  after  made  a  member  of  the  firm.  Some  of  his 
classmates  had  hoped  that  he  might  choose  a  literary  calling,  for  which 
he  was  so  eminently  fitted.  But  his  sound  logical  sense  decided  other- 
wise. The  only  professional  opening  for  him  seemed  to  be  the  law,  '  and 
after  all  law  is  business,'  he  remarked.  He  held  the  Boudinot  Historical 
Fellowship  the  year  after  graduation,  but  apart  from  the  work  connected 
with  that,  his  literary  life  may  be  said  to  have  ended  in  1889. 

"  The  illness  from  which  he  died  began  in  the  winter  of  1891-2.  From 
that  time  on  his  health  was  delicate,  and  he  found  our  climate  trying  in 

winter.     He  passed  part  of  the  following  winter  in  Georgia,  the  winter 


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of  1893-4  he  spent  in  Denver,  and  a  part  of  the  winter  of  1894-5  in 
Florida.  He  was  present  at  our  Sexennial  Keunion,  and  most  of  the  Class 
saw  him  then  for  the  last  time.  In  January,  1896,  he  went  to  California, 
where  his  father  was  living,  but  was  taken  ill  on  the  way  and  died  at  San 
Diego,  February  28,  1890. 

"  Quiet  and  self-contained  by  nature,  Harry  made  but  few  close  friends 
in  the  Class.  The  majority  did  not  get  close  enough  to  him  to  fathom  his 
lemarkable  personality  ;  a  few  were  inclined  to  misinterpret  his  reserve. 
Those  of  us  who  knew  him  intimately  are  eager  to  bear  witness  to  his 
sincerity  and  simplicity  of  character.  His  influence  on  the  small  circle 
to  which  he  belonged  was  powerful ;  it  is  difficult  to  describe.  A  phrase, 
a  modulation  of  voice,  a  gesture,  were  sometimes  sufficient  to  alter  life- 
long convictions.  For  we  knew  his  logical  mode  of  thought,  and  the 
arguments  that  lay  back  of  an  assertion  were  always  convincing,  if  we 
drew  them  out.  And  so,  during  those  years,  he  constantly  exerted  a 
moulding  and  inspiring  influence — and  a  lasting  one — on  his  more  inti- 
mate friends. 

"  His  power  was  undoubtedly  due,  in  part,  to  his  unusual  intellectual 
development.  Harry  was  more  mature  in  thought  than  most  of  us  when, 
he  entered  college.  He  had  been  a  great  reader  as  a  boy,  and  continued 
so  in  college.  With  Spencer  and  Darwin  on  one  side,  and  Browning  and 
Shelley  on  the  other,  his  range  was  wide ;  in  whatever  line  he  read  he 
always  seemed  to  catch  the  writer's  inmost  spirit,  whether  scientific  or 
artistic ;  and  he  had  the  unusual  gift  of  imparting  this  spirit  to  others. 

"  In  the  lighter  side  of  college  life  he  joined  heartily.  He  was  one  of 
the  '  gang  '  that  frequented  10  E.  M.  Witherspoon  of  a  Saturday  night, 
partly  for  whist,  partly  for  noisier  delectations.  He  was  one  of  the  Lit. 
Eoom  habitues  on  other  nights  besides  the  regular  literary  evenings.  In 
fact,  wherever  any  horse  play  was  in  the  wind,  one  might  always  count 
on  finding  Harry  Drummond  in  the  midst  of  it. 

It  was  on  the  religious  side,  perhaps,  that  Harry's  personal  influence 
was  greatest.  His  own  religion  was  a  broad,  ethical  Christianity.  He  had 
no  sympathy  for  narrowing  creeds  or  sects,  and  consequently  in  college, 
where  these  matters  are  apt  to  be  measured  by  rule  and  norm,  he  had  no 
chance  to  express  his  convictions  except  in  his  life  and  character.  Yet, 
while  he  took  no  active  part  in  the  stated  religious  work  of  the  college, 
his  earnest  life  and  steadfast  character  did  fully  their  share  in  pointing  out 
the  Way  to  those  whom  he  could  call  his  friends.     And  these  at  least  feel 


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how  much  their  lives  have  been  enriched,  their  characters  strengthened, 
and  their  views  broadened  by  Harry  Drummond's  life  and  example." 

A  committee  of  the  Class,  composed  of  Brooks,  Neher,  Bobbins  and 
Warren,  met  soon  after  his  death  and  drafted  this  resolution  : 

"  The  Class  of  1889  has  learned  with  deep  sorrow  of  the  death  of 
Harry  Gurnee  Drummond.  During  the  years  of  our  intimate  association 
together  as  a  Class,  each  of  us  came  to  recognize  and  admire  his  sterling 
character.  In  the  varied  relations  of  college  life  he  proved  himself  ever 
a  loyal  member  of  the  Class  and  a  true  friend  to  those  who  were  privileged 
to  know  him.  Although  not  a  leader  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  term, 
his  exceptional  intellectual  grasp  and  breadth  of  view  made  him  a  moulder 
of  thought  in  the  Class  and  in  college,  and  his  influence  on  the  intellectual 
development  of  those  who  knew  him  best  has  been  an  enduring  one. 

"  In  our  grief  at  the  death  of  our  classmate  our  thoughts  turn  to  those 
who  have  to  bear  the  far  heavier  loss  of  a  son  and  brother.  We  sympa- 
thize with  them  sincerely  in  their  sorrow,  and  assure  them  that  his  mem- 
ory will  remain  with  us  constantly,  even  as  his  life  has  left  its  impress  on 
the  lives  of  many  of  us." 

It  is  strange  indeed  that  two,  Drummond  and  Durell,  who  were  side 
by  side  throughout  the  course,  both  taken  so  early  from  our  midst,  should 
lie  buried  so  far  apart — one  on  the  coast  of  California,  the  other  in  Rome. 
Yet  may  we  not  think  of  their  spirit  and  influence,  and  through  them  the 
spirit  of  the  Class,  as  reaching  out  ever  further  in  all  directions,  to  stamp 
a  lasting  mark  on  many  men,  of  many  regions,  near  and  distant  ? 

For  the  above  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Drummond  the  Class  is  in- 
debted to  Warren.  That  your  Secretary  made  no  mistake  in  selecting 
him  to  write  it,  is  self-evident. 

The  members  of  the  Class  will  find  them- 

Edwards,  George  Kerr       selves  under  lasting  obligations  to  Belknap  for 

this  account  of  the  life  of  George  Edwards. 

A  hard  task  it  was  to  perform,  but  withal  a  sadly  pleasant  one,  as  we  will 

all  agree : 

"George  Kerr  Edwards  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  September 
25,  1866.  His  father  was  Dr.  Lewis  A.  Edwards,  who  graduated  at 
Princeton,  studied  medicine,  and  shortly  before  the  Mexican  war  entered 
the  United  States  Army  as  a  surgeon.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth  R. 
Couper,  of  New  Castle,  Delaware,  remembered  by  many  of  George's  friends 
as  a  woman  of  unusual  loveliness  and  character. 


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"  George's  early  years  were  spent  at  different  army  posts,  and  from 
1877  to  1881  he  attended  the  public  schools  in  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia.  During  his  brother's  career  at  the  Troy  Polytechnic  Institute 
the  family  took  up  their  residence  in  Troy  and  George  attended  the  Troy 
Academy,  a  private  institution  of  considerable  reputation.  Several  of  his 
old  friends  were  to  enter  Princeton  in  the  class  of  '88,  and  on  account  of 
that  fact,  and  because  of  his  father's  connection  with  Princeton,  George's 
attention  late  in  his  preparatory  course  was  turned  that  way.  Originally 
he  intended  to  enter  the  class  of  '88,  and  I  think  took  some  of  the  exami- 
nations for  that  class,  but  finally  determined  to  enter  our  Class  of  '89, 
which  he  did  in  the  fall  of  1885.  For  the  period  between  that  time  and 
the  spring  of  1889  it  is  necessary  for  me  to  say  but  little,  as  it  is  too  well 
known  to  us  all,  part  and  parcel  of  our  whole  college  life.  He  was  the 
friend  of  one  and  all  of  us,  the  enemy  of  no  one,  and  the  history  of  '89 
could  not  be  written  without  showing  on  every  page  some  allusion  to 
'The  Horse,'  'Horse  Edwards,  '89.'  Always  good  natured,  always 
happy,  he  was  welcome  at  every  student  gathering,  whether  of  freshmen 
or  of  upper  classmen.  His  career  with  us  you  all  know  well.  His  virtues 
were  many,  his  faults  all  on  the  surface.  We  saw  them  all,  there  was 
nothing  darker  in  the  back  ground. 

"In  the  summer  of  1889  'Horse'  went  West  with  the  Princeton 
Scientific  Expedition,  and  while  with  it  accomplished  great  work,  no 
one  in  the  expedition  being  more  zealous  in  carrying  on  the  work  of  in- 
vestigation than  he.  In  the  fall  he  entered  the  Medical  Department  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  finishing  the  three  years'  course  he 
graduated  in  medicine  in  June,  1892.  Through  a  competitive  examina- 
tion he  obtained  a  position  for  one  year  on  the  staff"  of  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital  of  Philadelphia,  and  when  his  service  there  came  to  an  end  he 
became  a  member  of  the  staff"  of  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital,  Baltimore.  It 
was  while  in  hospital  work  there  in  the  summer  of  1894  that  he  contracted 
the  disease,  pulmonary  consumption,  that  carried  him  away.  From  that 
time  up  to  the  end  it  was  a  fight  for  life,  with  the  cooler  portions  of  the 
year  spent  in  Colorado  or  California,  the  summers  in  the  East,  always 
commencement  week  at  Princeton.  He  returned  to  Pasa  Robles,  Cali- 
fornia in  the  fall  of  1896,  but  did  not  gain  in  strength,  and  finally  in  April, 
1897,  there  was  a  sudden  change  for  the  worse  and  his  elder  brother  went 
on  to  him.  As  soon  as  he  had  improved  sufficiently  he  was  brought 
East,  accompaniedby  his  brother  and  their  old  family  physician.  Dr.  Black, 


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to  the  house  of  his  relatives  in  New  Castle,  Delaware,  arriving  there  the 
first  part  of  May.  With  those  most  dear  to  him  around  him  '  Horse's  ' 
one  desire  was  to  get  back  to  old  Princeton  once  more.  Not  to  die  there 
but  to  see  the  dear  old  place  again,  to  look  into  the  eyes  and  clasp  the 
hands  of  the  friends  he  had  made  there,  to  breathe  once  more  the  atmos- 
phere of  Princeton  loyalty  and  good  cheer,  to  say  good-bye  to  these  old 
scenes  and  faces,  and  then  if  it  were  so  willed  returning  to  those  still 
dearer  to  him  to  pass  away.  I  speak  this  way  because  we  hear  it  said 
that  'Horse  '  returned  to  Princeton  to  die  there.  This  is  not  so,  he  came 
to  Princeton  Friday  accompanied  by  his  family  physician,  and  expected 
as  fully  to  return  to  New  Castle  as  any  one  of  us  expected  to  return  to  our 
home.  As  he  wrote  me  a  few  days  previous,  '  I  must  see  the  boys  and  the 
place,  and  look  in  on  one  more  Ivy  dinner,  and  see  one  more  Yale  game  if 
it  is  all  a  possible  thing,'  and  then  follows  something  very  characteristic, 
'  and  by  that  same  token  we  seem  to  have  a  pretty  likely  lot  of  ball  tossers 
this  year.'  He  did  see  the  place  and  the  boys  again  ;  he  did  look  in  on  one 
more  Ivy  dinner,  and  was  cheered  to  the  echo  ;  he  did  see  one  more  Yale 
game  with  a  great  victory  for  Old  Princeton,  and  then  we  brought  him 
back  to  the  room  in  Old  East  where  he  was  to  breathe  his  last.  His  dearest 
wish  accomplished,  no  one  could  have  been  more  eager  to  get  home.  His 
physician.  Dr.  Black,  and  his  family  were  telegraphed  for.  Dr.  Black 
arrived  Sunday  night,  and  if  possible  we  were  to  take  him  to  New  Castle 
Monday  morning.  The  morning  came  but  the  hold  on  life  was  so  slim 
that  there  could  be  no  thought  of  removal,  and  finally  at  about  two  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon,  just  as  the  senior  class  with  a  band  of  music  playing  were 
cheering  Old  East  for  the  last  time,  his  spirit  took  its  flight.  While  I 
know  that  if  George  had  had  his  wish  it  would  have  been  to  die  with  those 
dearest  to  him  about  him,  I  also  believe  that  if  it  could  not  be  that  way 
he  would  have  chosen  it  as  it  was,  back  in  Old  Princeton  with  old  scenes 
and  old  faces  around  him,  with  the  kind  words  of  Dean  Murray  sounding 
in  his  ears,  and  with  his  hand  clasped  in  that  of  an  '89  man,  as  he  entered 
the  shadows. 

"  There  were  short  funeral  services  conducted  by  Dr.  Murray  in  the 
Chapel  Tuesday  morning,  and  the  body,  accompanied  by  his  brother  and 
several  Princeton  classmates  and  friends,  was  taken  to  New  Castle,  Dela- 
ware, where  funeral  services  were  held  the  next  day.  On  Thursday,  June 
17,  1897,  he  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  family  plot  by  the  side  of  his  parents 
in  Oak  Hill  Cemetery,  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  in  the  presence 


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of  his  family  and  many  Princeton  friends.  A  wreath  of  ivy  tied  with 
Orange  and  Black  ribbon  was  placed  upon  his  grave.  The  monument 
over  it  bears  the  inscription  : 

George  Kerr  Edwards,  M.  D., 

Born  September  25,  1866. 

Died  June  14,  1897. 

"  Even  so  Father,  for  so  it  seemed  good  in  Thy  sight." 

"What  has  been  said  above  is  a  mere  sketch  of  the  life  of  our  departed 
classmate,  but  an  outline  of  his  career  since  graduation  in  1889.  In  his  chosen 
profession,  medicine,  he  had  begun  well  and  stood  high.  He  had  obtained 
two  positions  of  honor  in  two  medical  institutions  of  high  standing,  and 
when  illness  stayed  his  further  progress  in  his  professional  work  he  began 
his  fight  for  health,  hoping  at  a  later  day  to  again  go  on  in  his  medical 
career.     His  disappointment  was  a  bitter  one,  but  he  never  complained. 

"  As  regards  Old  Princeton,  it  seemed  to  grow  nearer  and  dearer  to 
him  as  each  year  went  by.  Not  a  year  passed  that  he  did  not  subscribe  as 
liberally  as  his  means  permitted  to  some  branch  of  college  work,  and  always 
without  the  knowledge  of  any  except  those  immediately  concerned.  What 
he  would  have  done  for  Princeton  had  he  been  in  a  position  to  do  it  can- 
not be  estimated.  His  gifts  to  the  college,  to  our  Class  Fund,  and  to  the 
Ivy  Club,  were,  considering  his  means,  of  great  magnificence,  and  give  an 
inkling  of  what  was  in  his  heart  to  do  for  Princeton.  Each  commencement 
season  brought  him  back  there,  the  first  to  come,  the  last  to  leave,  linger- 
ing amid  the  old  familiar  scenes  he  loved  so  well.  This  our  third  regular 
Keunion  finds  him  absent  in  person,  but  in  the  hearts  of  every  one  of  us  I 
am  sure  he  is  present.  Princeton,  always  proud  of  the  loyalty  of  her 
sons,  recognizes  in  George  Kerr  Edwards  the  personification  of  college  loy- 
alty and  love  for  one's  Alma  Mater.  We,  his  classmates,  will  miss  him, 
but  when  we  think  of  his  career  we  cannot  but  imbibe  some  of  that  spirit 
of  Princeton  loyalty  which  he  possessed  in  such  a  remarkable  degree,  and 
be  sure  that  his  infiuence  will  bear  fruit  for  years  to  come.  That  influence 
can  only  be  for  good,  and  will  remain  and  linger  in  our  College  annals 
long  after  all  of  '89  have  passed  into  our  University's  history.  I  say  we, 
his  classmates,  rather  all  Princeton  of  his  time  and  generation,  miss  him, 
and  wherever  a  loyal  Princeton  heart  of  our  time  beats,  there  will  be  kept 
green  the  memory  of  George  Kerr  Edwards. 


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'  Ah,  speuk  not  thus !     He  lies  not  there  1 
We  see  him,  hear  him  as  of  old  ! 
He  comes  !     He  claims  his  wonted  chair; 
His  beaming  face  we  still  behold  ! 
His  voice  rings  clear  in  all  our  songs, 
And  loud  his  mirthful  accents  rise  ; 
To  us  our  brother's  life  belongs, — 
Dear  friends,  a  classmate  never  dies  !  '  " 

Below  will  be  found  the  minutes  of  an  informal  class  meeting,  sent 
us  by  Gulick.  We  publish  them  here  that  the  Class  may  be  informed  as 
to  what  was  done  by  its  representatives  at  the  time  of  Edwards'  death. 

"  As  Secretary  of  an  informal  class  meeting  held  at  Princeton  on 
Monday  evening,  June  14,  1897,  it  is  my  duty  to  transmit  to  you  as 
Class  Secretary  an  account  of  what  was  done. 

"The  meeting  was  held  at  the  Nassau  Club,  and  there  were  present 
seven  men  as  follows  :  Belknap,  Brooks,  Brownlee,  Gulick,  Paxton,  Band 
and  Bobbins. 

"  The  occasion  of  the  meeting  was  to  determine  what  we  should  do  in 
regard  to  arrangements  for  the  funeral  of  our  classmate,  George  Kerr  Ed- 
wards, who  had  died  in  Princeton  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day.  It  was 
determined  that  the  Class  in  a  body  should  attend  the  services  in  the 
Marquand  Chapel  next  morning,  and  that  a  committee  of  the  Class  should 
attend  the  funeral  at  New  Castle,  Delaware,  on  Wednesday,  and  that  the 
Class  should  send  flowers.  Elowers  were  sent  from  Washington  by  Bollins 
in  response  to  our  telegram. 

"  At  the  services  in  the  Marquand  Chapel  there  were  present  from 
'89  Belknap,  Brownlee  and  George,  who  acted  as  pall  bearers,  and  Rand, 
Bobbins  and  Gulick. 

Brownlee,  YanWagenen  and  Gulick  attended  the  funeral  at  New 
Castle  on  Wednesday. 

"  The  flowers  sent  by  Bollins  for  the  Class  were  beautiful,  consisting 
of  an  immense  wreath  set  with  white  roses.  The  card  upon  it  bore  the 
inscription,  '  From  the  Class  of  1889,  Princeton  College. '  It  was  placed  at 
the  foot  of  the  casket.  The  family  seemed  to  appreciate  very  deeply  our 
attentions. 

"  There  was  something  wonderfully  pathetic  about  Edwards'  life 
during  the  past  three  years  and  in   his  death.     It  cannot  fail,  I  feel,  to 


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draw  us  closer  together  as  a  Class  and  make  us  feel  that  '89  in  George 
Edwards  alone  contributed  to  the  true  Princeton  spirit  beyond  any  class 
that  has  ever  graduated  from  Princeton." 


Thus  far  every  effort  to  locate  Eggles- 
Eggleston,  H.  Wardner  ton  and  to  secure  definite  news  from  him 

has  failed.  All  we  can  say  of  him  is  that 
he  is  reported  to  be  in  the  employ  of  the  New  York  State  Lunacy  Com- 
mission as  one  of  its  physicians.  He  has  been  seen  in  New  York  by 
several  members  of  the  Class  at  different  times,  and  so  far  as  known  is  as 
yet  unmarried.  We  hope  that  the  Appendix  will  contain  a  letter  from 
him. 

Here  is  a  newsy  letter  from  Emans  : 
Emans,  J.  Seymour  "  You   have  asked  a  letter  from  me,  so 

here  goes  :  It  has  been  my  good  fortune  to  re- 
turn but  once  to  my  Alma  Mater  since  we  gathered  at  our  Sexennial  Ee- 
union.  But  that  once  was  worth  the  trip.  It  was  one  day  last  fall,  when 
Poe  gave  an  exhibition  of  what  a  Princeton  man  can  do,  when  all  his  cuts 
are  used  up,  the  bell  has  stopped  ringing,  and  he  is  a  hundred  yards  from 
chapel.  I  hope  in  June  to  once  more  renew  old  friendships  beneath  the 
Princeton  elms. 

"  Since  last  we  met  I  have  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
No.  221  East  19th  street.  New  York  City.  During  that  time  I  have  done 
a  large  amount  of  hospital  work,  and  have  assisted  several  physicians  in 
their  private  work.  For  one  year  I  worked  in  the  Genito-Urinary  De- 
partment of  Hudson  Street  Hospital.  For  nearly  two  years  I  was  assist- 
ant surgeon  in  the  Eye  and  Ear  Department  of  Demilt  Dispensary.  I 
have  done  most  of  my  work  at  the  New  York  Post  Graduate  Medical 
School  and  Hospital.  At  that  hospital  for  three  and  one-half  years  I  had 
charge  of  Dr.  Willy  Meyer's  Surgical  Dispensary ;  for  two  years  have 
been  instructor  in  medicine ;  for  three  and  one-half  years  district  physi- 
cian, and  lately  became  assistant  in  the  Nose  and  Throat  Department.  I 
have  been  on  the  Board  of  Health  as  Medical  School  Inspector  for  two 
years.  In  these  various  positions  I  have  treated  thousands  of  patients  for 
glory.  I  have  treated  Lazarus  and  am  now  looking  for  Dives.  I  am 
pleased  to  say  my  practice  has  doubled  in  the  past  six  months. 


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"  Firmly  believing  in  the  proverb,  '  dum  vivimus  vivainus,'  I  have 
every  year  taken  a  vacation.  As  my  tastes  lean  strongly  toward  the  rod 
and  gun,  I  have  sought  the  wildest  spots  in  the  Adirondacks,  northeastern 
Maine  and  Nova  Scotia.  I  once  thought  it  was  the  mere  catching  of 
trout  and  shooting  of  deer  and  moose  that  gave  pleasure,  but  I  now  know 
that  of  far  more  importance  are  the  delightful  spots  and  sweet  sounds  which 
nature  reveals  only  to  the  eyes  and  ears  of  the  huntsman  and  fisherman. 
Far  more  important  still  are  the  memories  of  the  chase,  and  the  good  health 
which  follows  and  carries  one  successfully  through  the  year  to  another 
vacation  time.  However,  as  dearly  as  I  love  the  woods,  next  year  I  hope 
to  see  the  sights  of  Paris  and  the  Continent. 

"  I  am  not  married,  and  have  no  children  to  speak  of.  I  have  heard 
it  said  that  '  marriage  is  an  insane  desire  on  the  part  of  a  man  to  pay  a 
woman's  board. '  I  am  paying  no  woman's  board,  and  that  sweet  creature 
who  is  to  make  my  life  eternally  happy  or  otherwise  has  not  applied  for 
the  position,  so  I  am  not  even  engaged. 

"  I  have  written  nothing  worth  mentioning,  and  mj'  inventive  bump 
has  not  been  working. 

"  I  have  scarcely  ever  seen  any  of  the  boys  except  at  the  Princeton 
Club,  about  three  times  per  year.  "What  they  wish  known  of  themselves 
I  hope  they  will  write.  If  they  do  not  wish  known  what  I  know  of 
them  they  are  safe." 

Writing  from  the  office  of  the  Mersereau  Man- 
FORD,  H.  Ward  ufacturing  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  Treasurer, 

Ford  says  for  himself: 

"  Change  the  date  of  my  last  letter  to  you  to  1899  and  you  will  about 
have  my  history  to  date,  as  the  time  that  has  since  passed  has  brought  me 
few  changes.  Unfortunately  I  rarely  see  any  of  the  Class,  so  cannot  tell 
you  of  any  brilliant  careers,  although  I  know  there  must  be  many,  as  the 
Class  was  full  of  promising  material  which  must  have  developed  by  this 
time,  so  I  eagerly  await  the  Kecord,  on  which  you  are  so  kindly  working, 
to  enlighten  me. 

"Pete  Smith  has  given  up  his  idea  of  working  China  since  his  horse- 
raising  scheme  fell  through,  and  has  just  formed  a  '  skindicate  '  to  make 
brick.  Basil  Eicketts  having  explored  Africa,  then  later  Cuba  and  Porto 
Kico,  was  going  to  the  Philippines  to  help  our  Christian  Government  in 
its  humane  work  there. 


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"  My  marked  abilities  remaining  obscure  at  this  late  date  my  expec- 
tations for  the  future  are  small.  The  only  honor  I  nearly  won  was  to  be 
badly  defeated  for  a  minor  otEce  on  a  popular  municipal  ticket,  all  the 
other  candidates  being  elected  by  handsome  majorities. 

"  My  answers  to  your  questions  are  as  follows  : 

"  My  home  address  is  Morristown,  N.  J.  My  business  address  is  26 
Jay  Street,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

' '  I  am  the  Treasurer  of  the  Mersereau  Company,  Manufacturers  of 
Lithographed  Tin  Boxes,  Tin  Signs,  and  Advertising  Specialties. 

"As  reported  in  the  Sexennial  Record  I  was  married  to  Miss  Eosette 
Suckley,  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  on  April  8,  1891.  We  now  have 
three  children,  Rosette  Suckley,  born  in  New  York,  March  8,  1892; 
Henry  William,  born  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  November  28,  1893 ; 
and  Emily  Ward,  born  in  New  York,  December  20,  1895." 

This  brief  note  sums  up  what  Fulmer 
FuLMER,    Llewellyn   S.       has  to  tell  us  of  his  doings  since  his  last  report : 

' '  Your  persistency  has  at  last  prompted 
me  to  write,  but  the  epistle  will  be  a  very  short  one.  I  have  a  most  de- 
cided aversion  to  writing  about  my  deeds,  successes  or  failures.  I  leave  all 
such  matters  to  others.  My  addre.ss  is  1223  West  Lafayette  Avenue,  Balti- 
more, Maryland.  Present  occupation,  the  ministry.  I  am  pastor  of  the 
Lafayette  Square  Presbyterian  Church,  Baltimore,  Maryland.  I  was 
married  to  Miss  Josephine  Rusling,  October  18, 1892,  at  Abington,  Pennsyl- 
vania. We  have  two  children — Laurence  Rusling  Fulmer,  born  August 
5,  1894,  at  Abington,  Pennsylvania  ;  and  Raymond  Stoner  Fulmer, 
born  December  24,  1897,  at  Baltimore.  I  am  enjoying  life  and  enjoying 
my  work." 

Here  is  a  lawyer-like  letter  from  one  of  our 
FURST,  Sidney  D.  most  lustrous  legal  lights. 

"  This  record  is  not  going  to  startle  you 
further  than  you  may  be  surprised  that  I  have  replied  so  promptly.  (This 
letter  was  over  a  month  in  arriving.)  My  home  and  business  address  re- 
mains as  from  the  beginning,  Lock  Haven,  Pennsylvania.  Under  the 
firm's  name,  C.  G.  &  S.  D.  Furst,  I  practice  law  in  the  various  courts  of 
the  commonwealth.  In  the  matrimonial  court  my  issues  have  as  yet 
always  resulted  in  a  7ion-suit  or  nolle  prosequi    (this   means  not  even  en- 


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gaged),  and  the  court  seems  to  be  of  original  and  paramount  jurisdiction. 
While  I  have  served  as  a  '  whipper  in  '  for  various  organizations,  sporting 
and  social,  they  are  so  commonplace  as  to  be  uninteresting.  At  present  I 
am  (ecclesiastical)  Vice  Superintendent  of  the  Great  Island  Church  Pres- 
byterian Sabbath  School,  and  am  of  pre-millenarian  views.  I  am  (pro- 
fessional) Treasurer  of  the  Clinton  County  Bar  Association,  strictly  inde- 
pendent of  the  machine,  and  (corporate)  Secretary  of  the  B.  E.,  N.  &  B. 
V.  Koad  Company. 

"  My  only  published  writings  are  certain  parts  of  the  historical  and 
argumental  portions  of  various  suits  in  the  Supreme  and  Superior  Courts 
of  this  commonwealth,  in  which  this  firm  (C.  G.  &  S.  D.  Furst)  has 
figured.     That  these  are  so  brief  is  because  the  State  is  the  editor. 

"  Above  is  all  that  distinguishes  me  except  that  I  am  an  '89  man.  I 
look  forward  with  eagerness  to  our  all  being  together  again,  but  the 
greeting  will  not  be  without  pain  altogether,  for  I  suppose  I  shall  realize 
then  with  a  force  which  as  j^et  I  have  not  felt,  that  Stebbins  is  really 
gone  from  our  number  forever.  "When  I  think  of  him  1  am  reminded  of 
Shelley's  words  : 

•'  Out  of  the  day  and  night 

A  joy  has  taken  flight ; 

Fresh  spring  and  summer  and  winter  hoar 

Move  my  faint  heart  with  grief,  but  with  delight — 

No  more — oh,  never  more." 

Here  are  some  most  sensible  suggestions 
George,  William  J.  with  reference  to  the  true  end  of  all  education. 

We  commend  them  to  the  attention  of  all  of  our 
number  who  have  the  privilege  of  influencing  in  any  way  the  rising  gen- 
eration. 

"  No.  3.  It  is  evident  you  are  not  to  be  put  ofl".  I  have  been  located 
at  Lawrenceville  since  my  graduation.  The  great  satisfaction  that  comes 
to  me  in  teaching  is  in  seeing  boys  develop  into  noble  men. 

"  There  is  nothing  in  the  past  ten  years  of  my  life  that  is  of  special 
interest  to  my  classmates.  I  have  made  no  new  discoveries,  have  written 
no  books,  have  made  no  inventions. 

"  I  have  done  what  most  sensible  men  do  when  they  reach  maturity, 
married  and  established  a  home.     And  I  am  devoting  my  time  in  attempt- 


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ing  to  instill  into  the  minds  of  some  of  the  boys  of  our  land  a  desire  for 
knowledge,  and  at  the  same  time  to  covet  most  earnestly  the  nobility  of 
true  manhood." 


We  are  indebted  to  Gesner's  father,  the  Rev. 
Gesner,  Joshua  B.  Oscar  Gesner,  of  Linden,  New  Jersey,  for  the 

following  sketch  of  our  classmate's  life  : 

"Dr.  Joshua  Brush  Gesner,  my  first  child,  was  born  at  Rocky 
Hill,  New  Jersey,  October  30,  1867.  His  brother,  Rev.  Herbert  M. 
Gesner,  is  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Saratoga  Springs. 
His  only  sister  died  in  infancy.  Dr.  Gesner  prepared  for  college  at  the 
Pingry  School  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  and  was  graduated  from  Prince- 
ton in  1889,  taking  the  Fellowship  in  Modern  Languages.  He  was  also  a 
graduate  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City. 

"  He  always  seemed  to  me  to  be  an  honest,  careful,  though  perhaps 
not  a  brilliant  scholar.  He  was  generous  almost  to  a  fault,  and  with  a 
remarkable  sense  of  humor.  But  you  knew  him  yourself  and  I  will  con- 
fine myself  to  the  simple  facts  of  his  life.  He  married  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
four  years  the  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Ferdinand  Blancke.  She  bore  him 
three  children.  The  first  a  little  daughter,  died  in  infancy;  the  second, 
also  a  daughter,  is  now  a  strong  healthy  little  girl  a  little  over  four  years 
old  ;  and  the  third  was  born  shortly  after  his  death. 

"  I  have  always  thought  that  the  first  break  in  my  son's  health  oc- 
curred while  he  was  a  student  at  Princeton.  "While  he  was  on  a  visit  at 
home  the  young  people  of  our  church  gave  an  entertainment  at  which  he 
personated  '  Madam  Jarley.'  It  was  a  great  success,  and  a  repetition  was 
called  for,  and  so  for  two  consecutive  evenings  bespoke  almost  continually 
in  a  high  falsetto  voice,  and  his  throat  gave  him  a  great  deal  of  trouble 
ever  after.  Just  at  the  end  of  his  course  in  medicine  he  was  given  a  case 
of  measles  to  diagnose.  He  took  the  measles  and  probably  a  little  cold 
caused  them  to  settle  on  his  lungs.  From  that  time  he  was  a  con- 
sumptive, but  was  mercifully  spared  a  lingering  and  extremely  painful 
death  by  the  failure  of  the  heart.  He  lived  happily  with  his  family  at 
Saranac  Lake,  where  he  also  practised  his  profession  when  able  for 
about  four  years.  Finally  he  was  persuaded  to  go  south  on  account  of  the 
pain  in  his  throat.  He  died  at  Summerville,  South  Carolina,  on  Thurs- 
day, January  21,  1897,  a  little  over  twenty-nine  years  old.    He  was  buried 


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from  my  house  in  Linden,  New  Jersey,  and  I'ests  in  Hazelwood  Cemetery 
at  Kahway,  New  Jersey. 

"  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Saranac  Lake.     He  was  a  Christian  from  his  early  youth." 

The  following  minute  was  drafted  by  the  Class  President  and  Class 
Secretary,  and  forwarded  to  the  family  : 

Whereas,  it  has  pleased  God  in  His  all  wise  Providence  to  take  from 
us  our  friend  and  classmate,  Joshua  Brush  Gesner ; 

Be  it  resolved,  that  we,  as  representatives  of  the  Class  of  1889  of  Prince- 
ton College,  extend  to  his  bereaved  family  our  deep  and  sincere  sympathy, 
assuring  them  that  we  will  ever  hold  our  classmate  in  tender  remembrance 
as  one  whose  unflinching  rectitude  of  life,  fidelity  to  every  trust,  and 
earnest  conscientiousness  have  left  a  lasting  impression  upon  us  all.  We 
cannot  assume  to  feel  his  loss  as  keenly  as  those  who  were  so  much  nearer 
to  him  in  recent  years,  but  we  wish  to  assure  them  that  they  are  not  alone 
in  their  sorrow,  and  that  in  thus  expressing  our  sympathy  we  speak  not 
for  ourselves  alone  but  for  all  his  classmates. 

David  Bovaird,  Jr.,  President, 
Lewis  Seymour  Mudge,  Secretary. 


From  the  parsonage  of  the  First  Presby- 
GlLLESPIE,  George  E.  terian   Church  of  Port  Jervis,    New    York, 

Gillespie  writes  us  : 

"  I  really  have  nothing  joar!!icM?ar^2/ to  say.  I  have  seen  very  few 
of  the  men  of  the  Class,  and  heard  of  them  almost  as  little.  I  have  lived 
somewhat  out  of  the  way  of  seeing  them,  and  have  been  unable  to  return 
much  to  Princeton.  Port  Jervis,  New  York,  is  my  home  address  and 
'  business  '  address  as  well.  My  present  occupation,  as  you  may  know,  is 
a  preacher,  making  a  hard  endeavor  in  that  line.  Or,  it  may  be  I  am  a 
'  Fireman,'  for  I  was  introduced  at  a  large  fireman's  dinner  given  here 
'  as  one  who  had  been  fighting  fire  most  of  his  life.' 

"I  was  married  to  Miss  Lillian  DeEtta  Runyon,  of  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  on  November  10,  1892.  I  have  two  children — Ellen  Lillian,  born 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  July  10,  1894  ;  and  John  Runyon,  born  in  Port 
Jervis,  June  20,  1898.  I  have  been  located  in  three  churches — Cream 
Ridge,  New  Jersey,  1892-1894  ;  Brooklyn,  Bedford  Avenue,  1894-1895, 
and  Port  Jervis,  1896  to  date. 


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"  I  have  received  no  degrees,  written  no  books  and  made  no  inventions. 
I  am  nothing  but  a  plain  preacher,  with  nothing  in  my  life  of  any  particu- 
lar interest.  I  find  plenty  to  do  here,  as  does  every  other  minister  in  his  own 
parish.  I  am  glad  to  say  our  church  is  in  a  prosperous  condition.  Much 
has  been  done  to  it  since  I  have  been  here,  and  much  money  raised  for 
improvements." 

Gillespie  preached  for  the  Class  Secretary  one  Sabbath  last  summer 
while  he  was  absent  from  home  on  his  vacation.  The  Beverly  people 
were  delighted  with  his  ministrations.  His  success  in  Port  Jervis  has  been 
as  marked  as  his  own  account  of  it,  given  aboTe,  is  modest. 

Here  is  a  brief  sketch  from  the  pen  of  one  of 
GiLLiLAND,  W.  F.  the  most  loyal  of  our  non-graduates  : 

"  For  me  to  go  back  for  four  years  and  give 
you  in  detail  the  important  events  of  my  life  would  be  uninteresting  to 
my  classmates.  So  I  will  state  to  you  plainly  that  my  life  has  been  with- 
out mentionable  events,  and  you  can  thus  enter  it  upon  your  records.  I  hope 
that  I  may  be  able  to  say  more  the  next  time  that  the  report  is  made  out. 
I  will  attempt  to  answer  your  questions.  My  home  address  is  Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania,  and  my  business  address  is  the  same.  I  am  still  engaged 
in  farming  near  this  place.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Ada  Patterson  on 
March  13,  1887,  at  Buena  Vista,  Pennsylvania.  "We  have  three  chil- 
dren— Anna  M.,  born  on  April  8,  1892  ;  Margaret,  born  on  November  12, 
1893;  and  Samuel  A.,  born  on  October  10,  1897;  all  at  Gettysburg,  Penn- 
sylvania. You  will  excuse  the  baldness  and  brevity  of  this  report.  The 
events  in  my  life  are  very  few  and  far  between.  I  have  become  a  Mason 
since  my  last  report  was  sent  in.     This  may  interest  some  of  the  Class." 

It  is  with  much  regret  that  we  report 
Gordon,  Theodore  G.  Gordon   among   the  missing.      Every  en- 

deavor has  been  put  forth  to  secure  some 
news  from  him,  but  in  vain.  He  left  Columbus,  Ohio,  some  time  ago,  and 
is  supposed  to  be  somewhere  in  California.  This  is  all  the  information  we 
can  give  concerning  him. 

We  have  received  a  letter  from  Graham 

Graham,    Malbone  W.  enclosing  a  generous  gift  to   the  Keunion 

and  Record   Fund  and   promising  a  letter 

for    the    Record.       This    we    are     expecting    to    receive    in    time    for 

publication  in   the    Appendix.     The    following   facts    concerning    him 


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are  already  in  our  possession,  and  we  record  them  here  that  in 
any  case  the  Class  may  be  posted.  Graham  is  still  engaged  as  a 
missionary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Bogota,  the  capital  of  the  United 
States  of  Colombia,  South  America.  "While  assisting  in  the  conduct  of 
the  regular  services  of  the  church  which  has  been  established  there,  Gra- 
ham's special  sphere  of  effort  is  the  school  for  boys.  As  to  the  nature, 
extent  and  success  of  his  work,  we  quote  the  following  from  the  last  report 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  : 

"  The  boys'  school,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Graham,  has  had  a 
satisfactory  year.  The  excellence  of  the  teaching,  the  financial  outcome, 
and  the  spiritual  results  all  furnish  cause  for  thanksgiving.  The  total  en- 
rollment for  the  year  was  52,  of  whom  19  were  from  Protestant  families. 
There  was  no  boarding  department.  The  two  lady  teachers  come  from 
Protestant  families,  and  are  members  of  the  Bogota  Church.  They  are 
excellent  teachers,  faithful  and  full  of  zeal  for  the  extension  of  the  gospel 
in  Colombia.  The  three  English  classes  were,  during  the  first  half  of  the 
year,  under  Mr.  Graham's  charge,  after  that  under  that  of  Mrs.  Graham. 

' '  The  Bible  and  the  Shorter  and  Child's  Catechisms  were  taught  every 
day  in  the  year.  Chapters  of  the  Bible  were  .committed  to  memory. 
Special  attention  was  given  to  the  geography  and  history  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment. At  the  end  of  the  year  four  boys  received  prizes  in  Bible  History, 
and  five  for  committing  the  Shorter  Catechism.  The  prizes  were  Bibles 
and  copies  of  Stalker's  Life  of  Christ  and  Life  of  Paul,  in  Spanish.  The 
final  examinations  were  well  attended.  Dr.  Julian  Paez,  a  prominent 
literary  man,  who  took  special  interest  in  the  classes  in  religion  and  Eng- 
lish, afterward  published  an  account  of  the  examination  in  '  La  Cronica,' 
a  leading  Liberal  paper. 

"  Pour  boys  from  the  present  membership  of  the  school  and  one  who 
was  a  pupil  last  year,  united  with  the  church.  In  material  results  the 
school  reports  a  long  step  toward  self-support.  The  receipts  (1779.77)  are 
45  per  cent,  of  the  expenses  ($1,852.77).  Last  year  they  were  only  22  per 
cent.     Mr.  Graham  writes  : 

"  Besides  the  care  of  the  accounts  and  the  discipline,  I  have  given 
more  attention  than  usual  to  the  supervision  of  the  work  done  in  the  class 
rooms.  By  daily  personal  inspection  I  satisfied  myself  as  to  the  character 
of  the  instruction  given,  suggested  changes  wherever  necessary,  and  aided 
both  pupils  and  teachers.  I  was  able  in  this  way  to  note  the  progress  of 
each  boy,  and  give  to  each  a  considerable  measure  of  personal    attention. 


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Graham  was  married  to  Miss  Nellie  Nevegold,  at  Bogota,  on  July  8, 
1896.  They  have  one  child,  Malbone  Watson  Graham,  Jr.,  who  was 
born  Bogota,  March  26,  1898. 

From  Elk  Kidge,  Maryland,  Charlie 
Gray,  John  Charles  Gray  writes : 

"  It  is  a  little  difficult  for  me  to  give  any- 
thing but  a  bald  report  of  my  doings  for  the  past  four  years.  My  life  has 
been  active  and  busy — full  enough  of  interest  to  me,  but  not  of  events  that 
would  make  interesting  reading  for  the  Class.  Till  January  1,  1897,  I 
was  Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Fredericksburg,  Pennsylvania.  Since  that 
date  I  have  been  Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Elk  Ridge,  Maryland,  and  since 
December,  1897,  Archdeacon  of  three  Maryland  counties.  I  work  fifteen 
hours  a  day,  eat  three  meals,  and  that  is  the  end  of  me.  I  see  none  of  the 
'89  men,  go  nowhere,  and  hear  nothing.  From  the  point  of  view  of  a 
class  record  I  fear  I  am  no  good.     I  am  sorry,  but  I  cannot  help  it." 

As  was  reported  in  the  Sexennial  Record,  Gray  was  married  to  Miss 
Frances  Southgate,  at  Annapolis,  Maryland,  January  24,  1893.  They 
have  had  two  children  ;  John  Southgate  Gray,  who  was  born  at  Freder- 
icksburg, Virginia,  May  2,  1895,  and  who  died  June  8,  1896,  at  Annap- 
olis, Maryland;  and  Harriet  Randolph  Gray,  who  was  born  November  22, 
1898,  at  Hursley  Cottage,  Lawyer's  Hill,  Howard  County,  Elk  Ridge, 
Maryland. 

Gray  has  furnished  us  with  the  following  summary  of  the  official 
positions  held  by  him  since  graduation  : 

Curate,  St.  Anne's  Church,  Annapolis,  Maryland,  July  1,  1891,  to 
September  23,1892;  Rector  Trinity  Church,  Fredericksburg,  Virginia, 
September  23,  1892,  to  January  1,  1897;  Rector  Grace  Church,  Elk 
Ridge,  Maryland,  January  1,  1897,  to  date;  Archdeacon  of  Annapolis, 
Diocese  of  Maryland,  December  1897,  to  date ;  Member  Committee  of 
Missions,  Diocese  of  Maryland,  December,  1897,  to  date;  editor  "Mary- 
land Churchman  ' ' — organ  of  the  Diocese  of  Maryland — from  February 
1,  1899,  to  date. 

Here  is  a  bright  letter,  the  perusal  of  which  will 
Grey,  Norman  afford  a  welcome  rest  for  such  of  our  readers  as  have 

grown  weary  of  unadorned  facts  and  unending  sta- 
tistics.    From  his  law  office  in  Camden,  Grey  writes  as  follows : 


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"  It  seems  impossible  that  it  was  four  years  ago  that  you  urged  me  to 
write  you  all  about  myself  for  the  Class  Kecord.  In  looking  over  that 
Kecord  I  am  amused  at  the  modest  and  self-effacing  tone  in  which  we  all 
wrote.  We  had  few  honors  to  tell  about ;  the  other  fellows  were  not  in- 
terested in  us ;  we  had  little  to  say  anyhow.  It  took  little  more  than  a 
hundred  pages  to  make  that  volume  of  'short  stories.'  But  that  was 
four  years  ago.  "What  will  the  new  Kecord  tell  ?  A  different  tale,  I 
venture.  We  have  gotten  our  second  wind  in  the  race  and  have  secured 
many  prizes.  I  feel  free  to  write  in  this  strain,  Mr.  Secretary,  hoping 
soon  to  read  of  the  achievements  of  others  of  the  Class,  because  for  myself 
I  must  admit  that,  save  being  one  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  in  the 
Supreme  Court,  I  fill  no  official  position,  have  received  no  degrees,  writ- 
ten no  books  or  pamphlets,  and,  strange  to  say,  have  not  patented  '  many 
inventions.' 

"  I  am  still  deep  in  the  practice  of  law,  without  yet  being  perfect. 
My  expectation  for  the  future  is  to  enlarge  my  past  experience  in  that 
profession. 

"  I  want  very  much  to  be  present  at  our  great  Keunion;  but  I  am 
doubtful  whether  my  engagements  at  that  time  will  permit.  I  know  '89 
will  have  some  roaring  good  fun,  and  I  want  to  roar  with  them.  I  am 
reminded  of  the  jolly  beggar  in  '  The  Prince  and  the  Pauper,'  who,  at  the 
instigation  of  his  boon  companions,  removed  the  wooden  support  from 
his  sound  leg  and  the  green  patch  from  his  healthy  eye  and  roared  out  a 
rollicking  ditty.  So  we  will  drop  our  trials  and  troubles,  some  of  them 
perhaps  more  imagined  than  real,  and  being  young  again,  will  join  in 
the  old  songs  we  used  to  sing.  As  I  write,  a  hurdj-  gurdy  man  has  begun 
to  play  '  Old  Nassau  '  at  my  office  door.     It  is  a  good  omen." 

In  spite  of  this  good  omen  Grey  did  not  materialize  at  the  Keunion. 
We  share  in  his  regrets  over  this  fact.  His  marriage  was  recorded  in  the 
Sexennial  Kecord.  Since  the  publication  of  that  epoch-making  volume, 
two  children  have  come  into  his  home  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey — Louise 
Sinnickson  Grey,  born  on  January  12,  1896,  and  Martin  Philip  Grey, 
Jr.,  born  on  April  17,  1897.  Grey  has  been  much  interested  in  the  Phila- 
delphia Alumni  Association,  and  is  a  member  of  its  Executive  Committee. 

The  "Governor"  has  ihis  to  say 
GuLiCK,  Alexander  Reading  for  himself: 

"  My  present  home  address  is  51 
West  Thirty-ninth  Street,  New  York  City,  and  my  office  is,  as  indicated 
on  the  note  heading,  35  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City. 


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"Since  my  last  letter  to  you  as  Class  Secretary  I  have  been,  as  for- 
merly, practising  law.  I  am  not  married,  nor  engaged,  and  relatively  speak- 
ing, am  as  far  away  from  that  (as  I  have  been  told)  blissful  existence  as  I 
was  at  the  time  of  our  Sexennial  Keunion. 

"  I  have  held  no  official  position,  unless  being  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Admissions  of  the  Association  of  the  Bar  of  New  York  City  fills 
the  requirement.  The  term  of  that  office  is  for  three  years,  mine  expiring 
in  1899.  I  have  also  been  appointed  the  assignee  to  wind  up  the  business 
of  one  of  the  oldest  and  largest  coffee  and  spice  houses  in  the  city,  but  as 
that  is  appointive  rather  than  official,  I  do  not  suppose,  it  belongs  under 
your  seventh  question. 

"In  1895  the  law  partnership  of  Gulick,  Kerr  &  Marsh  was  formed 
with  offices  at  120  Broadway,  New  Tork.  This  partnership  continued 
until  May,  1897,  when  the  firms  of  Charles  H.  Woodruff  and  Frederick 
S.  Woodruff",  and  Gulick,  Kerr  &  Marsh  combined  under  the  firm  name 
of  Gulick,  Woodruff,  Kerr  &  Marsh.  This  partnership  continued  for  a 
year  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Kerr,  and  then  the  firm  name  became  Gulick, 
Woodruff  &  Marsh.  Our  offices  since  May,  1897,  have  been  at  35  Nassau 
Street,  New  York  City. 

"  I  am  still,  as  j'Ou  know,  enthusiastic  for  Princeton, — if  possible  more 
so  as  the  years  go  on.  Indeed  it  seems  to  be  a  growth  with  me.  I  still 
cling  to  the  idea  of  a  greater,  broader,  and  more  influential  Princeton. 
What  I  have  seen  realized  since  the  Sexennial  Reunion  makes  me  more 
confident  than  ever  of  the  splendid  future  of  the  University.  I  am  spec- 
ially pleased  at  the  formation  recently  of  a  new  Princeton  Club,  which 
has  a  well  equipped  house  in  a  splendid  location  in  this  city.  It  is  a  de- 
cided step  forward,  and,  I  am  sure,  for  the  good  of  Princeton  and  the 
widening  of  her  influence  in  New  York  City. 

"  As  you  already  know,  I  shall  attend  the  Reunion.  I  have  put  all 
else  aside  that  I  may  be  there  during  the  whole  time.  Of  the  members  of 
the  Class  I  have  seen  a  great  deal,  and  am  indeed  pleased  to  note  the  rapid 
strides  of  the  fellows,  and  also  pleased  to  note  the  success  that  has  attended 
the  efforts  during  the  past  ten  years  of  so  many  members  of  our  Class.  I 
have  always  contended  that  '89  was  one  of  the  most  individual  classes 
that  has  been  graduated  from  Princeton,  and  the  general  success  that  has 
attended  each  man  in  his  particular  sphere  is  strong  testimony  for  that 
contention. 


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"  I  am  very  much  pleased  to  hear  of  your  new  call  to  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  A  wider  field  for  your  talents, 
and  one  in  which  I  predict  for  you  a  grand  success." 

Your  Secretary  wishes  to  take  this  opportunity  to  make  known  to 
the  Class  what  those  of  its  members  who  were  present  at  the  Decennial  Ke- 
union  already  appreciate,  that  its  success  was  due  in  a  very  large  degree 
to  the  untiring  efibrts  of  Gulick.  Before,  during  and  after,  he  gave  freely 
of  his  time,  talents  and  treasure.  He  was  present  first,  last,  and  all  the 
time.  Words  are  inadequate  to  express  the  sense  of  obligation  to  him 
which  every  member  of  the  Class  should  feel  in  return  for  his  zeal  in  mak- 
ing the  Reunion  what  it  proved  to  be,  a  splendid  success. 

From  the  office  of  the  Weber  Railway 
Hall,  George  Louis  Joint  Manufacturing  Company,  71  Broadway, 

New  York  City,  Hall  has  written  us  this  letter. 
As  a  reading  of  it  will  reveal,  it  promises  a  sequel.  This  has  not  reached 
us  as  yet.  If  it  comes  to  hand  in  time,  it  will  find  a  place  in  the  Appen- 
dix : 

"  Many  thanks  for  your  kindness  in  the  matters  you  have  brought  to 
my  attention.  Please  pardon  my  delay  in  replying.  1  have  just  returned 
from  a  long  trip  on  the  road,  and  am  very  much  pushed  for  time.  I  am 
at  present  Engineer  for  this  company,  having  left  my  position  as  Division 
Engineer,  Maintenance  of  Way  Department,  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio 
Railroad,  last  fall.  Since  leaving  Princeton  I  have  been  in  the  Main- 
tenance of  Way  Departments  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  and  the  Balti- 
more and  Ohio,  and  in  my  present  position.  I  will  let  you  hear  from  me 
fully  as  soon  as  I  have  one  of  your  circulars  at  hand,  and  more  time.  I 
most  sincerely  trust  we  can  all  meet  again  at  dear  old  Princeton  in  June 
when  '89  will  once  more  be  to  the  front." 

Hall,  unfortunately,  was  unable  to  be  present  at  the  Reunion.  We 
understand  that  he  is  still  unmarried. 

Halstead,  Albert  Halstead,  as  yet,   has  given   us  no  infor- 

mation  concerning  himself,  but  we  learn  from 
others  that  he  is  living  at  Springfield,  Massachusetts.  He  has  been  editor 
of  the  Springfield  "  Union  "  for  the  past  three  years.  He  was  married 
about  two  years  ago  to  a  Miss  Wilcox  and  has  one  child.  Rollins,  who 
has  been  of  the  greatest  possible  assistance  in  securing  information  for  the 


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Record  from  the  reticent  and  reluctant,  has  written  him  several  times,  but 
in  vain.  Here  is  his  last  effort.  It  is  well  worth  printing,  and  should  cer- 
tainly call  forth  some  reply  : 

New  York  City,  June  27,  1899. 
My  Dear  Albert : 

Mudge  craveth  for  his  Record  and  refuseth  to  be  comforted  because 
he  heareth  not  from  you.  Spunk  up  and  write  him,  telling  him  Mrs. 
Halstead's  maiden  name,  the  date  of  your  marriage,  the  date  of  the  birth 
and  the  name  of  your  child,  the  honors  that  have  been  showered  on  you,  how 
many  times  you  have  been  in  jail,  and  why  you  are  not  there  now. 

Mudge  has  succeeded  in  getting  information  from  almost  every  man 
in  the  Class,  and  his  coming  Record  will  be  far  in  advance  of  any  pub- 
lished by  any  previous  class.  You  can  send  him  a  letter  in  about  a  min- 
ute, so  for  the  sake  of  the  Class  please  do  so. 

I  was  extremely  sorry  that  you  could  not  attend  at  the  reunion,  as 
many  of  my  pleasantest  recollections  of  Princeton  were  associated  with 
you.     Comfort  Mudge  and  oblige, 

Your  sincere  friend, 

Philip  Ashton  Rollins. 
Albert  Halstead,  Esq., 

Springfield  Union, 

Springfield,  Mass. 

The  following  letters  tell  the  story  of  the  finding 
Harris,  A.  Scott  of  Harris,  and  of  his  life  since  leaving  college,  far 

better  than  we  could  do.  "We  therefore  publish 
them  in  full,  and  thus  bring  his  history  up  to  date.  The  first  was  written 
in  October,  1895,  from  the  ofiice  of  the  Snow  Shoe  Mining  Company, 
Bellefonte,  Pennsylvania.     It  reads  : 

"I  had  the  good  fortune  two  weeks  ago  to  fall  in  with  an  old  class- 
mate, Mr.  A.  A.  Brownlee,  '89,  who  gave  me  your  address,  and  told  me 
to  write  to  you  for  the  Sexennial  Report  of  our  Class. 

"  I  should  very  much  like  to  have  one  of  these,  as  my  opportunities  for 
making  myself  acquainted  with  the  career  of  my  classmates  of  '89  have 
been  very  limited. 

"I  have  been  engaged  in  coal  mining  most  of  my  time,  and  have  of 
necessity  been  somewhat  isolated  and  out  of  the  current.     Your  letter. 


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sent  to  me  sometime  during  last  May,  came  so  late  (being  forwarded)  that 
I  felt  an  answer  would  be  of  no  service  to  you  in  compiling  the  Sexennial 
Report. 

"  Mr.  Brownlee  told  me  that  I  was  married,  and  in  addition  God  had 
presented  me  with  two  children — names  unknown.  As  I  am  not  yet 
married  let  me  beg  of  you  to  be  cautious  in  distributing  this — my 
history  (?)  " 

A  second  letter,  written  a  month  later  from  the  same  place,  and  after 
Scott  had  received  the  Sexennial  Report,  is  as  follows : 

"I  thank  you  very  much  for  your  kindness  in  forwarding  me  the 
Sexennial  of  the  Class  of  '89. 

"  What  a  flood  of  recollections  came  to  me  in  perusing  its  pages  I 
How  many  lovable  traits  of  some  of  the  dear  old  '  boys  '  it  recalled  to  me  I 
'  Tommy '  Noyes,  '  Pete  '  Smith,  '  Mose  '  Belknap,  Ford,  '  Billy  '  King 
and  '  Bum  '  Brownlee,  all  these  dear  old  friends  were  again  outlined  to  me 
from  the  hazy  past.  1  feel  that  I  have  been  such  an  '  empty  vessel.'  I 
have  allowed  indifference  to  sunder  all  these  ties,  the  most  pleasant  of  my 
life.  It  has  done  me  much  good,  given  me  great  pleasure  to  feel  that  I 
have  not  been  entirelj'  forgotten  by  you,  to  know  that  I  am  still  associated 
with  the  dear  old  Class.  My  business  has  thrown  me  with  some  very 
rough  people,  has  necessitated  my  living  in  some  pretty  wild  localities, 
and  yet  1  have  always  retained  a  loyal  feeling  for  Old  Princeton,  have 
always  had  a  scrap  of  the  dear  old  Orange  and  Black  about  somewhere. 

'  "  Kindly  let  me  know  of  the  next  Reunion  as  I  want  to  be  there,  and 
also  let  me  know  of  any  financial  needs  which  may  arise. 

"I  am  sorry  I  did  not  know  of  the  memorial  to  Eddy  Durell,  as  I 
should  have  esteemed  it  a  privilege  to  have  been  a  contributor.  Let  me 
congratulate  you  my  dear  Mudge  upon  your  perseverance  and  class  spirit 
which  this  complete  and  interesting  Sexennial  so  clearly  evidences." 

In  response  to  our  circular  requesting  information  for  the  Decennial 
Record  we  received  this  reply  written  from  Black  Hawk,  Colorado  : 

"  During  1895-96  I  was  prospecting  for  coal,  putting  in  mines  and 
contracting  their  output  in  Indiana  and  Cambria  counties,  Pennsyl- 
vania. During  1897-98  I  was  weighmaster  and  night  foreman  for  the 
Valentine  Iron  Company,  at  Bellefonte,  and  also  wholesale  agent  for  the 
Snow  Shoe  Coal  Mining  Company  of  Snow  Shoe,  Pennsylvania. 

"  In  June,  1898,  I  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Fifth  Regiment  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteer  Infantry  for  service  in  the  Spanish- American  war,  and 


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was  encamped  for  four  months  at  Chickamauga,  Georgia,  and  Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky.  I  was  mustered  out  of  the  United  States  service  in  Nov- 
ember, 1898,  and  was  made  a  corporal. 

"  I  was  '  knocked  out '  for  about  two  months,  and  then  in  February  of 
this  year  I  came  to  Colorado  to  do  some  work  for  the  Ore  Mining  and  Re- 
duction Company  of  Denver,  and  am  now  located  at  Black  Hawk, Colorado, 
a  gold-mining  camp  in  the  heart  of  the  Eockies,  thirty-six  miles  north  of 
Denver. 

"  In  the  summer  I  expect  to  take  a  prospecting  trip  through  the  San 
Juan  country  in  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  with  the  intention  of  engag- 
ing in  placer  gold-mining  should  I  find  a  favorable  opening. 

"With  the  exception  of  Arthur  Brownlee  I  have  seen  none  of  the 
'  boys  '  since  leaving  Princeton.  I  met  '  Bum  '  quite  unexpectedly  in  a 
sleeper  while  en  route  to  Philadelphia,  and  I  had  a  thoroughly  enjoyable 
time  with  him  in  talking  over  the  old  days,  and  learning  from  him  of 
some  of  the  dear  old  boys — '  Pete  '  Smith,  '  Tom  '  Noyes,  Ford,  '  Mose  ' 
Belknap,  and  '  Bas  '  Ricketts,  of  imperishable  memory. 

"  The  first  intimation  that  I  had  that  I  was  a  benedict  and  the  proud 
father  of  two  children,  was  when  I  saw  the — to  me — rather  startling 
fact  chronicled  in  the  Sexennial,  and  I,  herewith,  tender  my  thanks  to 
'  Bum  '  Brownlee  for  the  generosity  of  his  endowment,  as  the  Sexennial 
cites  him  as  its  authority  for  my  being  so  blessed.  I  am  afraid  that  my 
letter  is  growing  rather  lengthy,  but  it  is  so  because  of  your  rather  em- 
phatic request  that  it  be  so. 

"  I  shall  look  forward  to  the  coming  of  the  Decennial  with  great 
pleasure,  and  I  hope  it  will  record  only  success  and  happiness  as  having 
come  to  the  members  of  the  Class  of  '89." 

Hewitt  thus  rehearses  his  recent  history  : 
Hewitt,    Edward  R.  "I   will   give   you  the  information  that 

will  be  of  interest  to  the  boys,  but  I  do  not  see 
the  use  of  making  it  too  full. 

"  I  remained  in  Princeton  the  winter  of  1890,  and  took  a  course  in 
chemistry.  The  next  summer  I  went  to  Europe  and  studied  in  Hoffman's 
Laboratory  in  Berlin,  and  also  at  the  Charlottenburg  High  School  with 
Vogel  and  Liebermann.  All  my  work  was  in  the  line  of  chemistry.  I 
returned  in  the  summer  of  1891,  and  went  into  the  office  of  Peter  Cooper's 
Glue  Factory,  our  old  family  business. 


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"  On  September?,  1892,  I  married  Miss  Mary  Ashley,  of  Toledo,  Ohio, 
daughter  of  Governor  James  M.  Ashley.  On  June  14,  1893,  my  daugh- 
ter, Candace  Hewitt,  was  born  in  New  York.  On  July  7,  1895,  my  son, 
Ashley  Cooper  Hewitt,  was  born  at  Kingwood,  New  Jersey.  In  May, 
1896,  I  became  chemist  for  Peter  Cooper's  Glue  Factory,  which  position  I 
still  occupy. 

' '  I  have  taken  out  several  patents  on  glue  manufacture,  one  on  a 
process  of  color  photography,  and  have  one  allowed  on  a  bicycle  brake. 
During  the  last  two  years  I  have  been  busy  building  a  glue  factory  to  put 
into  operation  a  new  process  of  making  glue  and  gelatine  which  I  have 
worked  out.  I  am  happy  to  say  that  it  is  now  in  operation  and  daily 
producing  a  very  fine  product,  and  shows  every  indication  of  being  a  com- 
mercial success.  At  present  I  have  no  other  prospects  except  continuing 
in  my  business,  and  putting  it  again  into  the  foremost  rank  where  my 
grandfather  had  it  a  half  a  century  ago." 


Writing  from  St.  Bartholomew's  Em- 
HOTCHKISS,  Thomas  W.  ployment  Bureau,  211  East  43d  Street,  of 

which  Bureau  he  is  Superintendent,  Hotch- 
kiss  furnishes  us  with  a  letter  which  will  doubtless  be  of  interest  to  many 
of  our  number.     He  says  : 

"  My  present  work  is  one  of  absorbing  interest  to  me,  a  combination 
of  philanthropy  and  business.  It  is  a  self-supporting  work,  fees  being 
charged  for  registering  names  and  for  obtaining  employment.  We  have 
four  departments — Professional,  Mercantile,  Domestic,  Labor  and 
Mechanical  Trades.  In  the  Domestic  Department  employers  pay  for 
procuring  servants  as  in  any  intelligence  oflfice.  We  cover  the  whole  field 
of  industry.  Two  Princeton  graduates,  one  a  lawyer,  who  was  Ivy  Orator 
at  graduation,  the  other  a  physician  advanced  in  years,  have  been  among 
our  applicants.  Graduates  of  other  colleges,  Harvard,  Yale,  Lehigh  and 
many  smaller  institutions  of  this  country,  as  well  as  some  foreign  university 
men  from  Oxford,  Berlin,  McGill,  &c.,  are  among  the  candidates  for  salar- 
ied positions  through  this  agency.  We  have  filled  many  good  positions,  but 
they  have  not  always  been  such  positions  as  the  candidates  deserved.  An 
interesting  order  came  to  us  the  other  day  for  a  private  secretary,  having 
knowledge  of  stenography  and  general  office  business,  to  act  for  Mr.  Iselin 
during  the  period  covered  by  the  preliminaries  for  the  international  yacht- 


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race.  We  put  forward  a  good  man,  who  was  considered  favorably  until 
the  matter  was  reconsidered,  and  he  was  declined  on  the  ground  that  he 
is  an  Englishman  by  birth,  although  an  American  by  adoption.  At 
present  writing  the  position  is  still  vacant.  It  has  been  advertised  in 
the  '  Herald  '  lately,  but  seems  to  be  a  place  hard  to  till  from  among  those 
who  know  of  its  existence. 

"  I  am  soon  to  launch  an  enterprise  of  my  own — a  bureau  which  will 
go  by  the  name  of  the  Hotchkiss  Literary  Bureau.  It  will  have  the  fol- 
lowing objects  :  First,  to  place  all  kinds  of  literary  workers  in  salaried 
positions,  or  to  secure  temporary  or  special  assignments  for  them.  Among 
such  workers  are  editors  of  all  kinds,  art,  musical  and  dramatic  critics, 
law  writers,  special  writers  in  all  lines,  translators,  reviewers,  readers  and 
revisers,  proof  readers,  copy  holders,  linotype  operators,  literary  stenog- 
raphers, compositors,  library  cataloguers,  compilers,  and  teachers  of 
English  literature,  comparative  literature,  rhetoric  and  composition,  lan- 
guages, philology,  elocution  and  oratory.  This  branch  of  the  bureau  will 
be  operated  in  connection  with  my  present  work.  It  will  do  for  literary 
workers  what  Mrs.  Young  Fulton  and  the  Fisk  Agency  are  doing  for 
teachers,  or  what  Major  Pond  and  the  Star  Lyceum  Bureau  are  doing  for 
entertainers. 

"  The  second  department  will  be  for  the  criticism,  revision  and  orig- 
inal preparation  of  manuscripts  of  all  kinds,  and  the  filling  or  placing  of 
orders  for  literary  work.  The  criticism  of  plays  and  expert  proof  reading 
will  be  specialties ;  also  the  preparation  of  law  briefs  and  opinions,  and 
opinions  in  character  delineation. 

"  The  third  department  will  be  in  the  hands  of  my  sister,  who  is  a 
Doctor  of  Philosophy,  and  will  act  as  consulting  psychologist.  She  will 
collaborate  with  biographical  and  historical  writers,  novelists  and  play- 
wrights to  effect  the  consistent  analysis  of  character,  and  give  expert  opin- 
ions to  parents,  guardians  and  teachers  who  are  entrusted  with  the  care 
and  management  of  children  or  dependents,  in  whom  mind  and  character 
are  undergoing  development  or  are  subject  to  discipline. 

"The  fourth  department  is  to  be  a  business  department,  which  will  con- 
duct the  author's  entire  literary  business  in  New  York  City  ;  hunt  up  facts 
in  libraries  ;  give  information  concerning  the  details  of  printing  and  pub- 
lishing and  as  to  the  business  rating  of  publishers  ;  suggest  suitable 
publishers  or  publications  for  MSS.  ;  negotiate  the  sale  of  MSS.,  which 
have  been  favorably   passed  upon  by  my  reader ;    negotiate  the  sale  of 


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copyrights  and  other  literary  property  ;  draw  contracts  with  publishers 
and  examine  such  contracts  as  to  their  legality  ;  inform  capitalists  con- 
cerning opportunities  for  advantageous  investment  in  literary  enterprises  ; 
seek  to  recover  lost  or  misplaced  manuscripts ;  examine  publishers'  ac- 
counts as  author's  agent ;  collect  royalties  and  the  contract  price  of  MSS.; 
defend  authors  in  their  legal  rights  by  litigation,  it  necessary ;  pass  upon 
titles  to  copj-rights,  and  inform  authors  concerning  the  laws  of  copyright, 
how  copyright  is  obtained,  and  what  protection  it  gives  in  any  stated  case  ; 
act  as  agent  for  the  purchase  of  rare  books  and  MSS.;  catalogue  libraries  ; 
plan  courses  of  reading  and  study  in  all  lines  ;  teach  rhetoric  and  the  art 
of  composition  by  correspondence  ;  supply  illustrations  and  book-cover 
designs  to  printers,  publishers  and  authors  ;  supply  special  photographic 
views  of  New  York  City  to  out-of-town  publications ;  and  supply  to  lit- 
erary workers  any  standard  literary  text  books,  manuscript,  paper,  envel- 
opes and  all  writing  materials. 

"  For  all  of  these  services  the  fees  will  be  the  lowest  consistent  with 
the  time,  labor  and  skill  involved.  I  have  already  done  much  in  these 
lines,  and  have  had  valuable  commendation  for  the  proposed  plan.  I  al- 
ready have  assistants  listed  for  all  those  operations  which  I  cannot  or  have 
not  time  to  perform  myself.  I  shall  have  general  oversight  as  managing 
director. 

"  I  send  this  information"  to  the  Record,  realizing  that  the  Record 
will  serve  as  a  good  advertising  medium  without  charge  ;  also  because 
there  may  be  among  its  readers  those  who  may  be  glad  to  take  advantage 
— may  be  in  need  of  just  such  an  agency  having  the  facilities  which  this 
bureau  oifers. 

"  I  know  that  you  will  excuse  me  for  talking  so  much  about  myself, 
because  this  is  what  you  want,  of  course.  I  hope  all  the  rest  of  the  Class 
will  do  the  same,  and  I  hope  that  what  I  have  here  related  will  be  as 
interesting  to  them  as  any  account  which  they  may  give  concerning  them- 
selves will  be  to  me." 

Hotchkiss  received  from  Princeton  University  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Science  at  the  recent  commencement.  He  reports  himself  as  unmar- 
ried and  unengaged.  We  suggest  that  he  add  a  matrimonial  department 
to  his  proposed  bureau,  and,  while  blessing  others  with  good  wives,  keep 
the  best  of  the  applicants  for  himself. 


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This  letter  contains  a  sample  of  the  sort  of 
Hughes,  Stanley  C.  encouragement   which  your  Secretary  is  con- 

stantly receiving  from  the  members  of  the 
Class.  Usually  he  cuts  out  these  pleasant  personalities.  He  publishes 
this  only  to  prove  that  the  preparation  of  such  a  Record  as  this,  is  far  from 
being  a  thankless  task  : 

"  Your  letter  demanding  information  for  use  in  the  Decennial  Record 
is  at  hand.  It  is  marked  '  No.  2,'  but  it  is  the  only  one  that  has  reached 
me.  Craving  your  distinguished  pardon  for  a  seeming  neglect  permit  me 
to  transmit  at  once  to  you,  and  through  you  to  posterity  the  short  and 
simple  annals  that  ensue. 

"  First  you  ask  '  home  address  ?  '  Yes;  I  have  one.  It  is  Richmond, 
Indiana. 

"  As  for  '  occupation  '  I  am  still  '  living  by  my  wits,'  as  Hoosiers  say 
of  parsons.  In  December,  1894,  I  was  ordained  by  the  Whitewater 
Presbytery,  in  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Richmond,  where  I 
have  since  remained. 

"  On  the  first  daj'^  of  June,  1897,  I  was  united  in  the  bonds  of  wed- 
lock to  Miss  Lydia  Foulke.  On  the  twenty-eighth  day  of  April,  1898, 
I  became  the  father  of  a  robust  boy.  He  has  been  christened  Dudley 
Foulke  Hughes  ;  and  we  trust  he  may  enter  the  Class  of  1920  at  Prince- 
ton ;  where,  if  he  does  not  '  make  the  team,'  I  am  confident  he  will  take  a 
conspicuous  part  in  the  cheering. 

"  As  for  literary  work,  I  fear  that  none  of  ray  sermons  have  yet  ap- 
peared in  print.  You  are  at  liberty  to  say,  however,  that  my  classmates 
may  regard  me  as  one  of  the  pioneer  theologians  of  the  West;  for  I  am 
blazing  away  here  in  the  wilderness. 

"  In  conclusion,  my  dear  Mudge,  let  me  thank  you  for  the  excellent 
work  you  have  done  as  Secretary  of  the  Class  of  '89.  We  owe  you  a  debt 
of  gratitude,  every  one  of  us.  May  you  long  continue  to  exercise  your 
patient  pen.  You  are  the  best  Class  Secretary  I  ever  heard  of.  I  used 
to  think  that  some  of  the  dear  old  professors  had  taken  much  to  heart  the 
text  of  Scripture  that  runs  '  occupy  till  I  come.'  I  commend  it  to  you  in 
all  good  faith,  and  I  trust  you  may  always  be  the  faithful  link  that  binds 
the  scattered  Class  together,  the  scribe  of  the  best  Class  that  ever  graduated 
from  any  college." 


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This  noted  divine  deals  thus  with  our  desires 
Hunter,  James  for  a  dissertation  upon  his  career.     As  usual,  his 

letter  is  rich,  racy  and  most  readable. 

"  There  may  be  a  few  who  care  to  loolv  over  the  statistical  records  of 
my  recent  past,  and  for  their  benefit  I  append  replies  to  your  request : 

"  My  home  address  is  2243  Bathgate  Avenue  (but  this  may  be 
changed  after  June  first),  and  my  business  address,  East  183d  Street  and 
Monroe  Avenue. 

"  Present  occupation  ?  Bishop  of  the  flock  of  the  Anderson  Memo- 
rial Church. 

"Married?  Yes!  Same  as  before ;  no  change.  To  Miss  Harriet  C. 
Leake,  at  42  King  Street,  New  York,  October  4,  1892. 

"  Children  ?     Ditto — one — James,  Jr.,  born  September  4,  1893. 

"  Engaged  ?     Always — in  the  work  of  the  Lord. 

"  Official  position  ?     None. 

"  Degrees  ?     None.     I  have  neither  money  nor  influential  friends. 

"Books,  pamphlets?  No;  but  articles  in  The  Church  Economist^ 
the  best  religious  paper  published.     Write  for  terms. 

"  Inventions  ?     None. 

"  Information  ?     None. 

"Since  1895  I  have  been  indulging  in  a  patch-work  career,  exciting 
in  a  mild  and  non-intoxicating  way.  As  it  lacks  the  gusto  of  the  lives  of 
men  more  in  the  public  eye,  I  forbear  to  burden  you  with  details.  Suffice 
it  to  record  that,  owing  to  the  abandonment  or  consolidation  of  the  mis- 
sion of  which  I  had  charge,  I  was  out  of  a  position  from  May  to  December, 
1896.  I  then  became  the  assistant  to  Kev.  Dr.  John  Balcom  Shaw,  at  the 
West  End  Presbyterian  Church.  In  May  of  last  year,  finding  it  impossi- 
ble to  live  on  the  munificent  salary  I  was  getting,  I  resigned,  in  order  to 
starve  completely  at  once,  rather  than  to  be  killed  oflT  in  a  sort  of  procrasti- 
nating fashion.  But  I  survived,  and  last  fail  I  came  to  know  of  this  church 
— a  little  place  up  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Ward,  on  the  outposts  of  civiliza- 
tion— and  am  now  settling  down  to  the  life  of  a  country  minister,  with 
city  conveniences  and  taxes.  This  is  a  Dutch  Keformcd  Church,  so  you 
will  see  that  I  have  had  to  shake  Presbyterianism  because  of  the  discord 
within  its  ranks.  Being  of  a  peaceful  disposition,  I  shun  the  notoriety  of 
a  church  so  quarrelsome  in  its  character! 

"  I  see  very  little  of  any  members  of  the  Class.  As  my  education  in 
college  did  not  give  me  a  degree  in  football,  I  am  rather  '  out '  in  some 


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respects.  The  fact  that  the  social  reunions  of  the  Class  in  New  York  City 
are  made  dependent  upon  the  proximity  of  football  games,  and,  if  no 
game  occurs,  there  is  no  dinner,  may  cause  some  wonder  on  the  part  of 
such  as  I ;  but,  then,  what's  the  use  of  kicking— especially  when  there  is 
no  game.  Once  in  a  while  I  meet  one  of  the  '89  men  in  the  street,  but  I 
feel  that  I  am  out  of  the  direct  line  of  interest — and  am  content.  My 
books  and  my  work  are  quite  enough  for  me.  The  opportunity  to  do  some 
little  good  to  those  who  need  it  is  a  thing  I  always  wished  to  have,  and 
now  I  have  it.  This  necessarily  takes  me  out  of  the  circles  of  business 
and  professional  success,  and  away  from  the  busy,  bustling  world.  But  I 
am  quite  happy  in  the  retirement  and  obscurity  of  my  little  parish. 

"  My  expectations  for  the  future  are  not  manifold,  as  they  were  ten 
years  ago.  All  I  hope  for  is  health,  clear-headedness  and  success  in 
building  up  a  congregation  of  sensible,  level-headed,  liberal  people,  who 
will  respond  to  the  call  of  one  of  the  least  of  them  to  '  build  up  the  walls 
of  Jerusalem.'  I  recognize  that  I  have  a  hard  row  to  hoe,  but,  thank 
God,  the  soil,  once  it  is  upturned,  is  good  and  repays  the  labor. 

"  I  do  not  know  whether  I  shall  attend  all  the  exercises  at  the  tenth 
anniversary  of  the  Class,  so  I  will  be  obliged  to  you  if  I  may  have  as  soon  as 
possible  an  outline  of  your  proposed  programme,  in  order  that  1  may 
make  my  date.  I  feel  that  Princeton  has  grown  away  from  me  in  these 
last  few  years.  The  munificence  of  her  endowments,  the  grandeur  of  her 
buildings,  the  evident  development  of  class  lines,  and  the  '  continentaliza- 
tion  '  of  her  students,  have  tended  in  my  case  to  deprive  me  of  a  personal 
interest.  For  the  College  of  New  Jersey  is  not  Princeton  University.  I 
believe  that  the  old,  compact  curriculum,  and  the  small,  homogeneous 
student  body,  and  the  genial,  whole-souled  comradeship  of  a  limited  class 
were  far  better  than  is  the  seeming  prosperity  of  the  present  era  of  expansion. 
I  prefer  bone  and  sinew  to  flabby  flesh — a  vertebrate  rather  than  an  octo- 
pus. The  last  time  I  was  at  Princeton  was  two  years  ago,  and  I  came 
away  feeling  that  I  did  not  care  whether  I  ever  returned.  The  college 
has  grown  away  from  me.  I  recognize  that  this  means  that  I  am,  per- 
haps, standing  still  or  moving  with  decreasing  pace.  But  I  want  to  pre- 
serve the  memories  of  that  ancient  (!)  time  when  I  first  saw  the  town  and 
campus.  I  never  hear  a  locust  in  a  tree  but  I  recall  the  sound  I  heard  that 
first  night,  as  1  sat  in  a  room  waiting  for  my  entrance  examinations.  The 
air  was  full  of  the  sound  and  the  town  was  noisy  with  the  graduating 


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class's  fun.  But  gradually  all  died  down  save  the  locusts,  and  they  sang 
me  to  sleep.     Ah  !  to  be  back  there  again,  just  about  to  start  in  ! 

"  As  I  write  the  panorama  to  the  south  of  Princeton  opens  before  me. 
The  succession  of  fertile  fields  stretching  away  to  the  low-lying  hills  on  the 
horizon, with  the  blue  sky  above  and  the  white  cloud  masses,  and  over  all  the 
brooding  calm  of  nature  in  repose,  all  rise  up  before  me  as  I  write  in  this 
little  room,  with  the  visible  signs  of  house  building  outside  my  window. 
Streets  and  wagons  and  houses  all  vanish,  and  once  more  I  am  standing 
down  by  South  Edwards  thinking  thoughts  that  never  can  find  expression 
and  dreaming  dreams  that  are  never  to  be  realized.  I  used  to  think  that 
nowhere  was  the  grass  so  green,  the  trees  so  stately,  the  clouds  so  lofty 
and  white,  as  in  Princeton.  And  to-day,  such  is  the  force  of  association, 
I  am  living  it  all  over  again.  I  am  consequently  almost  fearful  to  return 
lest  I  become  disillusioned. 

"  You  will  understand,  my  dear  Mudgie,  that  much  of  the  above  is 
not  for  publication,  and  consequently  will  exercise  to  the  full  your  edito- 
rial prerogative." 

We  trust  that  Hunter  will  pardon  us  for  printing  his  letter  in  full. 
That  it  is  too  good  to  be  cut  or  trimmed,  all  will  agree.  And  then,  too, 
it  is  a  positive  relief  to  be  able  to  give  our  "  editorial  prerogative  "  a  rest 
for  a  page  or  two.  It  has  still  a  long  road  to  travel  before  it  will  have 
earned  a  five  years'  vacation.  Thank  you,  Hunter.  Now,  we  are 
refreshed  and  ready  to  wield  the  blue  pencil  again. 

Once  again  we  are  indebted  to  A.  C.  McCord  for 
Huston,  F.  C.  news  of  Huston.     McCord  tells  us  that  Huston  took 

up  his  residence  in  Chicago  some  five  or  more  years 
ago.  His  first  venture  was  in  the  real  estate  business.  After  leaving  this 
he  entered  the  employ  of  a  publishing  house.  At  present  he  is  connected 
with  the  Cane  Brake  Sugar  and  Molasses  Company.  His  home  address  is 
5490  Monroe  Avenue,  Chicago,  Illinois.  He  is  still  unmarried.  "We 
hope  that  we  may  yet  receive  some  information  concerning  him  from  his 
own  pen. 

Irons  is  brevity  itself  in  his  reply  to  our  re- 

IRONS,  Henry  C.  peated  requests  for  information.     Indeed,  so  brief 

is  he  that  we  are  compelled  to  rewrite  his  autobio- 

graph  from  beginning  to  end.     He  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Irons 

&  Todd,  with  offices  at  320  Broadway,  New  York  City,  and  also  a  partner 


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in  the  Seaboard  Realty  Company,  with  headquarters  at  the  same  address. 
He  still  claims  to  be  a  legal  light,  but  we  understand  that  the  lust  for 
lucre  has  quenched  somewhat  said  light,  and  that  at  present  he  is  more  in- 
terested in  corner  lots  than  in  common  law.  He  has  a  home  at  312  Manhat- 
tan Avenue,  New  York  City.  His  marriage  was  noted  in  our  last  Record. 
Since  our  last  publication  he  has  had  four  children — Alice  Katharine,  born 
Septemberl5, 1895,  died  September  23,  1895;  Helen  Harcourt,  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1896;  Henry  Clay,  Jr.,  born  February  16,  1898;  and  William 
Giberson,  Jr.,  born  April  27,  1899. 

From  the  following  it  will  be  seen  that  our 
Jenney,  William  S.  Colonel's  military  tastes  continue  unabated  : 

"  In  answer  to  your  circular  letter  of  April 
first  I  would  say  that  my  home  address  is  525  Oak  street,  Syracuse,  New 
York,  and  my  business  address,  30  Everson  Building,  in  the  same  city. 
As  you  know,  I  was  married  to  Miss  Nina  G.  Bevan,here,  on  April  16 
1895.  We  have  one  child  living,  Nina  Dean,  born  January  31,  1896. 
We  lost  a  boy  at  birth,  on  December  30,  1897.  I  was  Captain  in  the  141st 
Separate  Company,  National  Guard  of  the  State  of  New  York,  from 
May  to  December,  1898. 

"  During  the  four  years  since  our  Sexennial  Reunion,  I  have  con- 
tinued to  '  saw  wood  '  here  as  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Jenney  & 
Jenney. 

"  My  brother,  of  the  class  of  1895,  is  here  with  me,  and  we  have  a 
general  law  practice.  I  have  steered  clear  of  society  and  politics.  Outside 
of  my  work  I  have  indulged  in  the  usual  athletic  recreations  of  bowling, 
tennis,  golf  and  gunning. 

"  I  spent  last  summer  at  Watch  Hill,  and  the  previous  one  at  the 
Thousand  Islands.  I  resigned  from  the  National  Guard  some  years  ago, 
but  when  our  local  company  was  called  into  service,  I  was  designated  by 
the  Governor  to  organize  a  National  Guard  company  to  take  its  place.  A 
large  proportion  of  the  men  of  the  company  were  college  men,  and  in- 
cluded alumni  of  all  the  leading  colleges. 

"  Upon  the  second  call  for  volunteers,  most  of  the  men  in  my  com- 
pany responded,  and  I  secured  six  commissions  for  them.  I  could  not  go 
myself,  and  had  no  privilege  save  the  superintending  of  the  military  funerals 
which  were  had  over  eight  different  Syracuse  boys  who  were  killed  or 
died  in  the  service.  My  brother  was  a  First  Lieutenant  in,  and  McKen- 
zie,  '95,  was  First  Sergeant  of  Company  A,  203d  Regiment. 


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"  While  at  Lakewood  for  a  few  days,  a  couple  of  years  ago,  I  had  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  '  our  boy.'  He  had  grown  to  be  a  fine,  bright,  sturdy 
fellow,  and  will  surely  add  glory  to  the  Class.  With  lynx  eyes  I  watched 
the  care  his  so-called  parents  bestowed  upon  him,  and  can  assure  the  Class 
that  it  has  made  no  mistake  in  committing  to  Mitchell  and  his  charming 
wife  the  bringing  up  of  '  our  boy.' 

"  Belknap  continues  the  successful  practice  of  medicine  here,  and  has 
a  son  of  whom  he  is  justly  proud.  I  have  seen  most  of  the  men  of  the 
Class  during  the  past  few  years,  either  here,  at  the  Yale  games,  or  about 
the  country.  Even  old  Jimmy  Denegre,  whom  I  thought  caged  up  in 
St.  Paul,  dropped  in  on  me  one  spring  on  his  way  to  the  Saratoga  regatta. 
He  was  a  member  of  a  local  crew  which  '  should  have  won  but  did  not.' 

"  It  certainly  was  not  Jimmy's  fault,  because  he  was  hard  as  a  rock 
and  had  a  grip  like  iron.  Basil  Eicketts  went  to  New  Haven  with  a  lot 
of  us  who  attended  that  mournful  affair  two  years  ago.  He  has  had  an 
adventurous  life  equal  to  that  of  a  Dumas  hero,  and  seems  to  be  our  par- 
ticular star  fighter. 

"  I  shall  certainly  attend  the  Keunion,  and  feel  very  grateful  to  you 
and  the  other  members  of  the  Class  Committee  who  are  going  to  make  it 
such  a  success." 

Jenney  responded  for  the  Class  at  the  Alumni  Dinner  on  Tuesday  of 
Commencement  Week.     His  speech  did  honor  to  the  Class  and  to  himself. 

Katzie,  as  the  following  will  reveal, 
Katzenbach.  Frank  S.,  Jr.  still  continues  to  counsel  the  citizens  of 

the  capital  city  of  the  commonwealth  of 
New  Jersey : 

"  Persistency  should  be  rewarded.  Having  received  at  least  five  circu- 
lars from  you  as  to  what  is  expected  of  me  for  the  Decennial  Kecord,  I 
feel  that  I  should  dip  my  pen  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  material  for  it, 
although  in  my  case  I  am  embarrassed  somewhat  by  the  paucity  of  the 
material. 

"  My  home  address  is  still  the  parental  roof,  138  North  Clinton  Ave- 
nue, Trenton,  New  Jersey,  and  my  business  address  the  Forst-Richey 
Building,  in  the  same  city. 

"  My  present  occupation  is  that  which  I  have  exclusively  followed 
since  my  graduation — the  study,  and  the  practice  of  law — and  which  I  ex- 
pect to  continue  to  follow  for  a  considerable  time  to  eome,  as  I  see  no  im- 


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mediate  propect  of  being  able  to  retire  with  a  competency  obtained  through 
the  practice  of  my  profession. 

"  Heretofore  when  I  have  reported  that  I  was  neither  married  nor 
engaged  I  have  been  with  the  majority  of  my  classmates,  but  from  the 
flood  of  wedding  invitations  and  announcements  that  I  have  been  receiv- 
ing from  my  classmates  during  the  past  two  years  I  believe  that  in  report- 
ing that  I  am  neither  married  nor  engaged  I  must  now  be  counted  in  the 
minority.  But  as  I  observe  that  some  of  my  classmates  who  had  a  repu- 
tation for  difiidence  equal  to  my  own  have  taken  the  step,  I  am  plucking 
up  courage. 

"  I  have  always  reported  before  that  I  have  filled  no  political  posi- 
tion. I  must  confess  to  have  made  a  departure  in  this  direction  since  my 
last  report.  In  the  month  of  April,  1898,  I  was  nominated,  much  against 
my  personal  inclination,  by  the  Democratic  Party,  for  the  oflBce  of  Presi- 
dent of  the  governing  body  of  the  city  of  Trenton,  the  official  title  being 
Alderman-at-Large  ;  and  much  to  my  surprise  I  was  elected.  As  I  had 
never  taken  much  interest  in  politics,  and  no  active  part,  there  were  dur- 
ing the  course  of  the  campaign  many  incidents  amusing  to  me,  some  of 
which  I  wish  I  felt  that  I  could  take  the  space  to  relate.  I  found,  how- 
ever, that  a  candidate  for  oflfice  was  expected  to  quench  the  thirst  of  the 
thirstJ^  and  to  appease  the  hunger  of  the  hungry,  and  that  there  were 
more  that  were  thirsty  than  hungry.  My  term  of  ofiice  expires  in  May, 
1900.  So  far  the  duties  of  the  office  have  been  in  no  sense  disagreeable  or 
distasteful  to  me. 

"  No  degrees  have  been  received  by  me,  unless  in  obtaining  in  Nov- 
ember, 1895,  the  title  of  counselor-at-law  can  be  called  the  taking  of  a 
degree. 

"  I  was  recently  honored  by  the  the  Princeton  men  residing  in  Tren- 
ton by  being  elected  Vice-President  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the 
city,  which  has  been  in  a  most  flourishing  condition  for  the  past  two 
years. 

"  1  have  written  no  books,  articles  or  pamphlets,  unless  the  making 
of  briefs  comes  within  this  category.  The  Trenton  colony  of  '89  men  is 
not  large,  consisting  of  Shepherd  and  myself.  I  am  glad  that  it  is  soon 
to  be  increased  by  the  addition  of  our  Class  Secretary,  who  has  been  called 
to  the  pulpit  of  the  leading  Presbyterian  Church  of  Trenton.  For  a  year 
or  so  I  did  not  attend  the  class  dinners  given  in  New  York  the  evening 
before  the  Yale  foot-ball  game,  but  I  found  in  1897  that  I  had  missed  a 


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great  deal,  as  I  saw  many  of  the  fellows  I  had  not  seen  for  several  years. 
I  give  this  as  my  experience  with  the  hope  that  it  will  induce  others  to 
attend. 

A  very  readable  letter  is  this  from  Kauff- 
Kauffmann,  Victor  mann.     Our  only  regret  is  that  it  is  not  longer : 

"  During  the  four  years  which  have  elapsed 
since  the  Sexennial  my  life  has  been  decidedly  uneventful.  During  those 
years,  and,  in  fact,  ever  since  the  fall  of  1889,  I  have  been  constantly  em- 
ployed in  the  newspaper  business  on  the  Washington  '  Evening  Star.'  I 
started  in  on  a  salary  which  would  not  have  kept  Sid  Furst  in  neckties, 
and  I  have  not  got  very  much  above  that  point  yet.  During  most  ot 
these  years  I  did  reportorial  work,  but  about  two  years  ago,  when  certain 
changes  were  made  in  our  office  and  Tom  Noyes  was  made  city  editor,  I 
was  also  promoted  to  a  '  desk  '  with  the  high-sounding  title  of  literary 
editor,  which  simply  means  that  I  have  general  charge  of  the  literary 
features  of  the  Saturday  'Evening  Star,'  which  corresponds  to  the  ordinary 
Sunday  morning  paper. 

"  I  see  Tom  Noyes  every  day,  of  course,  and  one  of  my  chief  regrets 
in  life  is  that  I  am  not  so  fortunate  as  to  see  more  '89  men.  It  seems  to 
me  that  I  have  seen  more  men  from  almost  every  other  class  in  Washing- 
ton than  from  our  own.  My  work  is  not  particularly  arduous  at  present, 
but  I  think  you  will  all  agree  that  I  am  about  as  well  able  to  take  care  of 
a  sinecure  as  any  other  member  of  the  Class. 

"  I  have  settled  down  into  a  very  staid  and  sedate  man  of  family,  as 
the  father  of  two  candidates  for  future  honors  at  Princeton  should  do.  I 
have  a  pleasant  but  not  too  ambitious  a  home  of  my  own  on  Washington 
Heights,  just  on  the  edge  of  the  city,  and  I  think  that  every  Princeton 
man  who  has  ever  looked  for  the  latch-string  has  found  it  on  the  outsidej 
and  a  hearty  welcome  with  pipe  and  bowl  on  the  inside.  I  only  wish  that 
more  of  the  boys  would  pull  the  string.  My  wife  is  an  enthusiastic 
Princetonian,  and  says  that  nothing  is  too  good  for  '89  men. 

"  During  the  past  four  years  1  have  spent  a  portion  of  each  summer 
at  a  fishing  club  in  northern  New  Hampshire,  where  sometimes  I  catch 
trout,  and  where  I  always  have  a  good  time  and  a  thorough  rest.  With 
the  exception  of  an  occasional  trip  to  New  York  on  business  or  pleasure, 
I  am  pretty  constantly  at  my  desk  at  the  office  from  late  in  the  morning 
until  early  in  the  afternoon. 


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"At  the  present  writing  I  am  counting  on  participating  in  the  fes- 
tivities of  the  Decennial,  and  if  anybody  is  going  to  have  a  better  time 
than  I,  he  will  have  to  get  up  pretty  early  in  the  morning  and  stay  up 
pretty  late.  That  is  really  about  as  much  as  I  can  say  about  my  pros- 
pects for  the  future.  So  far  as  I  am  in  a  position  to  speak,  the  chances 
are  that  I  shall  continue  to  work  and  live  in  the  years  to  come  very  much 
as  I  have  in  the  past  ten  years.  Tom  Noyes  and  I  were  born  into  the 
newspaper  business,  one  might  say.  and  so  long  as  the  people  of  Wash- 
ington continue  to  clamor  for  'the  capital's  greatest  daily,'  we  shall 
probably  continue  to  do  our  share  in  supplying  them  with  reading  matter 
of  a  very  high  order." 

Kauffmann  appends  these  as  his  answers  to  our  specific  inquiries : 
"  My  home  address  is  2200  Wyoming  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C, 
and  my  place  of  business  the  '  Evening  Star  '  Oflice,  Washington,  D.  C.  I 
am  employed  on  the  Saturday  '  Evening  Star,'  with  rank  and  title  of  Lit- 
erary Editor.  I  was  married  on  November  27,  1894,  to  Miss  Jessie 
Christopher,  in  the  city  of  Washington.  We  have  two  sons — Philip 
Christopher  Kauffmann,  born  in  Washington,  October  13,  1895  ;  and  Victor 
Kudolph  Kauffman,  born  in  Washington,  February  24,  1898.  Under 
the  circumstances  it  is  unnecessary  to  say  that  I  am  not  engaged.  I  re- 
gret to  say  that  such  honors  as  j^ou  mention  in  your  circular  have  not 
been  forced  upon  me.  As  to  degrees,  I  am  under  the  impression  that 
Princeton  gave  me  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in  June,  1892.  In  view  of  the 
fact  that  during  the  past  four  years  I  have  been  both  a  reporter  and  edi- 
tor, it  is  needless  to  say  that  I  have  both  written  and  edited  articles  too 
numerous  and  of  too  little  consequence  to  deserve  mention." 

Billy  King  thus  sets  forth  his  doings 
King,  William  Howard  during  the  past  four  years  : 

"  In  reply  to  your  circular  I  enclose 
the  following :  My  home  and  office  are  at  412  South  Fifteenth  Street, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  I  am  still  a  practicing  physician.  As  the 
last  Record  stated  I  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Stokes,  of  West  Chester, 
Pennsylvania,  on  May  12,  1892.  We  have  three  children  living,  Will- 
iam Paul  King,  born  October  14,  1895  ;  Rodney  Stokes  King,  born  Jan- 
uary 22,  1897  ;  and  Dorothy  Mary  King,  born  June  26,  1898. 

"  I  have  practiced  medicine  since  my  term  as  interne  expired  at  the 
Philadelphia  Hospital  in  April,  1896. 


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"  I  have  been  doing  nothing  but  throat,  nose  and  ear  work,  except 
examining  for  the  Fidelity  Mutual  Life  Association. 

"  I  have  been  Chief  of  the  Throat,  Nose  and  Ear  Clinic  at  the  South- 
ern Dispensary,  Associate  in  the  Nose  and  Throat  Department  of  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  Hospital,  and  Assistant  Aurist  in  the  Out- 
patients Department  of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital.  I  have  done  consid- 
erable medical  writing  in  the  way  of  reviews  and  professional  news,  and 
am  assisting  in  the  production  of  a  text-book  of  Throat  and  Nose  now  in 
press.  I  have  corresponded  for  Medical  Journals,  and  am  Associate  Edi- 
tor of  the  Khinological  and  Laryngological  Department  of  the  Inter- 
national Medical  Journal.  With  others  I  made  the  physical  examina- 
tions of  the  Pennsylvania  volunteers  for  the  Spanish  war  prior  to  their 
mustering  out.  I  have  been  City  Examiner,  and  acted  as  Medical 
Director  for  a  time  of  the  Fidelity  Mutual  Life  Association.  I  am  a 
member  of  the  County  Medical  and  Pathological  Societies,  of  the  Prince- 
ton Club  of  Philadelphia,  and  of  the  Princeton  Club  of  Jefferson  Medical 
College." 

Kneeland    has    furnished     us     with    a 
Kneeland,  Furman  L.  briefer   autobiography   than    we  could  have 

wished.     It  is  as  follows  : 

"  Please  pardon  my  delay  in  answering  your  class  circular,  dated 
April  first.     I  have  no  excuse  to  offer. 

"  My  home  address  is  103  William  Street,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey. 
I  am  a  salesman  in  the  employ  of  Austin,  Nichols  &  Company,  Import- 
ers, Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Grocers.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Annie 
A.  Otis,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York,  on  April  25,  1893.  We  have  one  child, 
Helen  Kneeland,  born  February  18,  1894,  at  Brooklyn,   New  York. 

"  I  have  very  little  information  about  '89  men  to  give  you.  I  am 
very  busy  myself,  and  have  little  time  to  see  them  and  renew  old  ac- 
quaintances, but  still  shall  be  pleased  to  read  in  your  Record  of  their 
doings.  I  have  only  to  say  for  myself  that  I  am  happily  situated,  and 
trust  it  may  be  your  own  good  fortune,  as  well  as  that  of  all  '89  men,  to 
be  equally  so." 

We  have  prepared  the  following  statement  con- 

Lee,  Graham  cerning  Lee,  principally  from  material  furnished  us 

by  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  in 

whose  employ  he  is  as  a  missionary.     We  hope  to  have  a  letter  from  his 

own  pen  in  time  for  insertion  in  the  Appendix. 


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Lee  is  stationed  at  Pyeng  Yang,  Korea,  a  city  near  the  centre  of  the 
country  and  about  one  hundred  miles  northwest  of  Seoul,  the  capital. 
From  his  report  for  the  year  May,  1897 — May,  1898,  we  learn  that  the 
church  at  Pyeng  Yang  has  so  outgrown  its  frequently  enlarged  building 
that  it  has  been  compelled  to  hold  services  for  the  women  in  a  separate 
building.  This  is  but  a  temporary  arrangement  until  they  are  able  to 
build  a  church  large  enough  to  accommodate  them  all.  There  are  five  sep- 
arate Sabbath  School  centres  in  the  city,  but  all  gather  together  for  gen- 
eral services  on  Sunday,  which  is  considered  eminently  important  for  the 
solidifying  of  the  church  into  one  and  the  promotion  of  unity  and  good 
fellowship.  This  church  has  paid  all  its  own  expenses  in  building,  re- 
pairs and  evangelistic  and  school  work,  besides  employing  an  evangelist 
for  outside  work  and  aiding  other  smaller  churches  in  the  country  in 
church  building. 

The  country  work,  which  year  by  year  assumes  larger  and  larger 
proportions,  is  divided  for  convenience  into  five  large  circuits.  In  one  of 
these,  where  last  year  there  was  but  one  locality  in  which  Christians  met 
for  worship,  there  are  now  seven.  In  the  Whang  Hai  circuit,  where  last 
year  there  were  six  places  of  meeting,  there  are  now  thirty-one.  Lee  on 
his  last  tour,  aiming  chiefly  to  visit  the  new  centres  of  light,  could  not 
reach  them  all.     He  writes  : 

"The  needs  of  this  portion  of  our  field  average  very  great.  The  peo- 
ple arc  very  ignorant,  but  they  are  simply  hungry  for  instruction  in  spir- 
itual things.  The  seed-sowing  which  has  yielded  such  a  wonderful  har- 
vest has  been  done  principally  by  two  men,  Han  Chi  Sun  and  Kim  Paik 
Yung.  These  men  receive  no  money  from  the  mission  or  the  churches. 
They  support  themselves,  and  seem  to  preach  from  the  very  love  of  it." 

Of  another  circuit,  which  Lee  had  been  able  to  visit  but  once,  he 
says  : 

"  This  district  has  also  received  a  rich  blessing.  There  are  now  seven 
church  buildings  and  ten  other  places  where  there  are  small  groups  of 
believers.     These  people  gave,  this  year,  147  yen  towards  self-support." 

Of  Lee's  field  Speer,  who,  as  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions, visited  Korea  in  August,  1897,  writes : 

"  In  the  north  the  church  has  spread  and  penetrated  as  we  saw  noth- 
ing to  surpass  anywhere  else  in  the  world.  The  churches  are  crowded. 
The  opportunities  are  unlimited." 


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During  the  year  one  hundred  and  seventy-three  persons  were  bap- 
tized. Many  more  were  applicants,  but  Lee  was  simply  unable  to  get  the 
time  to  examine  them.  The  total  church  membership  now  foots  up  337, 
while  the  number  of  catechumens  enrolled  is  1,723,  making  a  total  of 
2,100  in  connection  with  the  church. 

During  the  latter  part  of  1898  Lee  was  forced  to  leave  his  station  for 
a  time  because  of  a  severe  illness,  which  terminated  in  an  attack  of  fever. 
On  this  account  the  Board  has  not  received  a  personal  report  from  him  for 
the  past  year.  We  are  glad  to  learn,  however,  that  he  has  recovered  his 
health  and  strength  and  has  returned  to  the  field  where  his  labors  in  the 
past  have  been  so  richly  blessed. 

Lee's  marriage  was  reported  in  our  last  Record.  Since  its  publication 
he  has  been  blessed  with  three  children,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  Pyeng 
Yang,  Korea : — Neyles  Webb,  born  August  4,  1895  ;  Charles  Raymond, 
born  March  13,  1898  ;  and  Margaret,  born  April  24,  1899. 

We  have  persuaded  Bobby  Lewis  to  prepare 
Lewis,  Robert  C.  this  pen-picture  of  himself: 

"  As  usual,  I  am  late  in  answering  your 
circular  letter,  and  have  no  fair  excuse  to  offer  except  forgetfulness.  Tc 
tell  of  myself  during  the  past  four  years  will  not  take  long,  as  no  degrees, 
inventions  or  honors  have  fallen  to  me.  My  life  has  been  a  very  quiet 
one,  without  any  remarkable  experiences  to  relate.  While  abroad,  dur- 
ing the  summer  of  1897,  I  noticed  an  advertisement  in  one  of  the  Paris 
papers,  as  follows :  '  Yocal  instruction  given ;  thorough  method ;  terms 
reasonable,'  and  signed  George  Shea.  I  looked  it  up,  and  who  was  it  but 
good  old  George  Shea,  '87  !  He  had  just  been  married,  and  had  settled 
on  his  future  as  an  opera  singer  and  instructor.  It  was  a  great  pleasure 
to  me,  as  he  had  isolated  himself,  becoming  a  typical  Frenchman  ;  and  it 
recalled  all  the  good  times  we  had  together  on  the  Glee  Club. 

"  Of  course  you  know  I  am  married  and  rejoice  in  a  promising  son, 
destined  for  Princeton,  to  make  up  for  his  Dad's  deficiencies.  I  am  very 
much  afraid  I  shall  be  unable  to  get  down  to  the  Reunion,  but  I  shall  be 
there  in  spirit.     I  enclose  answers  to  the  questions,  as  follows: 

"  My  home  address  is  1071  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City.  I  am 
employed  in  the  Lincoln  National  Bank,  32  East  Forty-second  Street.  I 
was  married  to  Miss  Pauline  E.  Penniman,  at  536  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
York  City,  on  October  13,  1896.  We  have  one  child,  Robert  Penniman 
Lewis  by  name,  who  was  born  at  the  above  address  on  January  11, 1898." 


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Bobby  Life  has  forwarded  to  us  this  as  his 
Life,  Robert  H.  contribution    to    our    collection    of    Eighty-nine 

Tales  : 

'•  I  have  not  been  one  of  the  most  prompt  to  answer  your  circular 
letter,  nor  do  I  suppose  I  am  one  of  the  most  dilatory.  I  have  had  some 
experience  in  circular  letters  myself  recently,  and  my  experience  tells  me 
that  a  quicker  way  is  to  call  a  man  up  on  the  telephone.  Do  not  do  that 
to  me,  though,  if  I  am  to  pay  the  bill. 

"My  present  address  is  44  Steuben  Street,  Utica,  New  York.  I  am 
assistant  to  Rev.  Ralph  W.  Brokaw,  the  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  this  city. 

"  That  covers  the  ground  as  far  as  the  specific  questions  are  concerned. 
The  answer  to  all  the  rest  is  '  No.' 

"  Since  leaving  the  Seminary  1  have  spent  three  years  in  Northamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  where  I  was  assistant  to  Rev.  Paul  Van  Dyke  in  the 
Edwards  Congregational  Church.  Northampton  comes  as  near  being  an 
ideal  city  as  any  place  I  know  of  on  this  mundane  sphere,  and  when  you 
get  New  England  life  at  its  best,  you  have  something  that  is  not  surpassed 
anywhere.     Needless  to  say,  my  work  there  was  unusually  congenial. 

"  For  the  present  I  am  in  Utica,  the  home  of  Horatio  Seymour,  Ros- 
coe  Conkling  and  Harold  Frederic  ;  also  very  near  the  home  of  the  im- 
mortal David  Harum.  This  is  a  bicyclers'  paradise.  Miles  of  asphalt 
pavement  and  cinder  paths  running  out  into  the  country  in  all  directions. 

"  I  do  not  expect  to  be  able  to  attend  the  Decennial  Reunion,  much 
to  my  regret. 

"  I  want  to  assure  you  that  I  for  one  appreciate  very  much  the  work 
you  have  to  do  as  Secretary  of  the  Class,  and  especially  the  work  you  will 
have  to  do  in  preparing  the  Record." 

Maxwell  has  written  us  a  letter,  the  sub- 
Maxwell,  George  T.  stance  of  which  we  here  place  before  you.    He 

is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Maxwell 
«&  Scoville,  Bankers  and  Brokers,  with  oflices  in  the  Drexel  Building, 
Broad  and  Wall  Streets,  New  York  City.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Stock  Exchange.  He  was  married  on  November  9,  1895,  to 
Miss  Marie  Raymond  of  New  York  City.  They  have  no  children.  His 
home  is  at  14  East  77th  Street,  New  York  City.  He  still  retains  his  in- 
terest in  the  Class,  and  was  a  contributor  to  the  Decennial  Memorial  Fund. 


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Nothing  has  been  heard  from  this  classmate 
Maxwell,  J.  S.  since  he  left  us  at  the  end  of  our  Freshman  year. 

With  the  aid  of  Phil  Rollins  we  have  made  a  de- 
termined search  for  him,  but  in  vain.  Even  Pinkerton's  Detective 
Agency  was  unable  to  unearth  him.  If  he  is  still  in  the  land  of  the  living 
he  is  lying  very  low. 


McCord  has  sent  us  something  most  satis- 
McCoRD,  Alvin  C.  factory  about  himself,  and  has  supplemented  this 

with  much  that  is  interesting  about  the  class- 
mates whom  he  has  met  in  his  travels  : 

"  It  is  a  great  deal  that  you  ask  of  a  man  that  he  should  sit  down  and 
deliberately  write  out  a  full  account  of  himself  and  his  achievements  dur- 
ing four  years.  This  is  especially  true  when  it  is  your  expressed  intention 
of  reducing  these  statements  to  unfeeling  print  that  may  come  back  again 
many  times  like  ghosts  of  the  past.  The  task  is  made  vastly  more  diffi- 
cult by  your  limitation  to  '  material  suitable  for  publication.'  Some  peo- 
ple might  consider  that  this  was  a  wise  anticipation  of  your  request  a 
little  further  along  to  'give  a  glimpse  of  your  past  life.'  This  leads  me 
to  believe  that  what  you  want  is  a  confession.  In  almost  the  next  sen- 
tence you  ask  us  to  tell  what  we  know  about  any  of  our  classmates.  How- 
ever willing  I  might  be  for  the  sake  of  the  Class  and  the  good  of  humanity 
to  write  my  own  confession,  I  positively  refuse  to  bear  testimony  against 
any  other  members  of  the  Class.  But  '  unity  is  free  and  flexible,'  and  per- 
haps what  you  really  want  is  an  account  of  the  brighter  side.  lean  easily 
recount  the  happenings  of  the  past  four  years,  but  to  write  as  you  suggest, 
•of  your  expectations  for  the  future,'  would  be  a  labor  of  too  many  hours, 
or  perhaps  days  and  weeks. 

"The  great  fact  in  my  life  since  the  Sexennial  Reunion  was  my 
marriage  December  22,  1896,  to  Miss  Emily  Davis  Rowe  of  Evanston, 
Chicago,  Illinois.  I  have  not  the  Sexennial  Record  here  to  refer  back  to 
and  see  whether  I  made  any  pessimistic  remarks  about  matrimony,  but  in 
all  probability  I  did,  for  it  was  at  about  that  time  that  the  first  symptoms 
were  manifest.  At  our  wedding  Jim  Denegre,  Fred  Neher  and  Condit 
Smith  were  among  the  ushers.  Fred  came  up  the  aisle  with  a  man  just 
his  size,  and  had  I  been  in  the  mood  for  '  reminiscencing,'  I  am  sure  I 
should  have  been  reminded  of  the  time  he  and  Eddie  Durell   brought  up 


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the  rear  of  the  Blaine  and  Logan  Marching  Club.  In  the  accounts  the 
papers  managed  to  spell  Fred's  name  every  other  way  than  the  correct  one. 
A  number  of  funny  incidents  occurred,  arising  principally  out  of  the  fact 
that  Evanston  is  a  strictly  prohibition  district. 

"  Just  at  present  I  have  no  home  address.  So  much  of  my  time  has 
been  spent  in  the  East  that  we  decided  to  give  up  our  apartment  until  I 
could  be  at  home  more  of  the  time.  It  seemed,  a  short  time  ago,  that  I 
would  make  my  headquarters  in  New  York  instead  of  here,  but  I  now 
think  I  shall  remain  here.  My  office  addresses  are  1525  Old  Colony  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  and  100  Broadway,  New  York  City.  My  present  occupa- 
tion is  President  of  McCord  and  Company,  with  offices  at  the  above 
places,  and  President  of  the  Drexel  Railway  Supply  Co.,  Fisher  Building, 
Chicago.  These  companies  are  in  the  business  of  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  railwaj'  supplies. 

"  I  have  held  no  offices,  received  no  degrees  or  honors,  have  written 
no  books  or  pamphlets.  I  have  done  a  little  inventing,  but  it  is  strictly 
of  a  commercial  nature  and  not  worthy  of  recording  here. 

"  Fortunately  my  business  has  carried  me  about  over  the  country 
quite  a  great  deal,  and  I  have  in  this  way  spent  many  pleasant  hours  with 
different  classmates.  Several  weeks  ago  I  dropped  in  on  Colonel  Bill 
Napoleon  Jenney  at  Syracuse.  He  is  not  the  same  old  Bill  in  one  respect ; 
I  think  he  would  now  be  put  down  in  the  '  poller  '  class.  But  from  what 
I  heard  of  his  very  prominent  position  at  the  bar,  it  is  counting.  I  saw 
'  Mose  '  Belknap  at  the  same  time.  There  is  no  need  to  tell  about  him,  for 
not  one  of  us  would  have  him  change  a  bit,  and  he  does  not  disappoint  us. 
One  of  my  greatest  pleasures  was  to  drop  into  the  law  office  of  '  Roger  ' 
Conner  in  Charleston  not  long  ago.  He  did  not  think  at  that  time  that 
he  could  be  at  the  Decennial,  but  I  now  understand  that  he  has  decided 
to  come. 

"Several  years  ago  I  used  to  see  a  great  deal  of  'The'  Gordon  in 
Columbus,  but  I  understand  he  has  now  gone  to  California.  I  .see  Noel 
in  St.  Louis  occasionally,  but  he  has  quite  a  family  now,  and  has  never 
had  an  opportunity  of  proving  to  me  that  St.  Louis  was  really  '  four 
hundred  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea. '  Several  years  ago  I  spent  a  day 
or  two  with  Billy  Segur  in  Boston.  He  was  then  the  surgeon  of  the  Emer- 
gency Hospital.  I  wish  I  could  record  here  what  his  favorite  drink  at 
that  time  was,  but  that  would  involve  both  a  confession  and  a  testimony, 
both  of  which  I  have  decided  not  to  give. 


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"  Several  weeks  ago  I  received  a  letter  from  one  J.  R.  Barr,  General 
Manager  of  the  Lexington  and  Eastern  Road,  inquiring  about  some  ap- 
pliance that  we  manufacture.  I  replied  to  it  in  the  usual  business  man- 
ner before  I  realized  that  it  was  our  own  '  Jase  '  risen  to  this  proud  emi- 
nence. I  wrote  him  a  personal  letter  at  once  and  received  a  very  cordial 
reply,  and,  I  might  add,  a  very  nice  order  as  well. 

"  I  see  a  great  deal  of  Jim  Denegre  in  St.  Paul.  If  he  were  not 
going  to  be  at  the  Reunion  I  would  tell  you  all  about  him,  for  every  one 
would  want  to  know.  I  meet  Jim  and  Sam  Thorp  occasionally.  Jim 
has  now  gone  to  Colorado.  They  have  been  very  successful  in  Minne- 
apolis.    Brownlee  and  John  Proudflt  stop  in  to  see  me  occasionally. 

"  All  of  the  men  that  I  have  met  seem  to  be  doing  well.  I  think, 
however,  that  in  the  next  ten  years  we  will  hear  more  from  them.  It  has 
required  up  to  this  time  to  get  established.  Every  one  has  seemed  inter- 
ested in  the  Decennial,  and  I  believe  we  ought  to  have  a  great  Reunion." 

Here  we  have  an  epistle  from  the  other 
McCoRD,  D.  Walter  end  of  the  McCord  &  Company  outfit : 

"I  have  purposely  delaj'ed  replying  to 
your  circular  received  about  April  first.  I  have  waited  a  month  in  the 
hope  that  I  might  truthfully  inject  into  the  story  of  my  ten  years'  expe- 
rience something  that  would  put  me  out  of  the  plain  ordinary  street-car 
horse  grade  and  let  me  rank  up  among  the  thoroughbreds.  But  the 
thirty  days  have  passed  without  there  being  any  wild  rush  among  institu- 
tions or  governments  to  confer  on  me  degrees  or  honors,  and  I  am  there- 
fore doomed  to  again  take  my  place  among  the  '  also  rans.' 

"The  last  four  years  have  not  been  without  their  gains  to  me,  of 
which  one  of  the  principal  ones  is  the  frequency  of  meeting  with  '89  men, 
due  to  the  change  in  my  residence  from  Chicago  to  New  York,  where 
with  my  family  I  am  comfortahlj'  domiciled  at  253  West  Ninety-first 
street,  with  a  business  address  at  100  Broadwaj'. 

"  As  reported  in  the  Sexennial  Record,  I  was  married  in  August, 
1893,  to  Miss  Fannie  E.  Davis.  We  have  one  child,  a  little  girl, 
Dorothy  Davis  McCord,  born  July  23,  1894. 

"  I  am  engaged  in  the  same  business,  that  of  inanufacturing  and 
selling  Railway  Supplies,  in  which,  after  almost  ten  years'  experience,  I 
begin  to  feel  fairly  well  established.  Having  had  an  unwontedly  prosper- 
ous business  of  late,  I  am  now  looking  forward  to  a  protracted  vacation 


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this  summer,  which  is  going  to  begin  with  my  arrival  in  Princeton  on 
June  tenth,  where  I  confidently  expect  to  take  on  a  store  of  enthusiasm 
sufficient  to  last  all  summer.  In  this,  however,  I  am  not  referring  alto- 
gether to  the  joy  that  will  come  from  frequent  recourse  to  the  steins 
which  Dr.  Bert  Waters  has  so  thoughtfully  provided  for  taking  his  pre- 
scriptions. These,  however,  arc  not  to  be  underestimated,  and  I  feel  an 
eternal  debt  of  gratitude  to  him." 

About  the  middle  of  May  we  were 
McCULLOCH,  William  H.  delighted  to  receive  this  response  from  the 

long  silent  McCulloch.  It  was  written 
from  Peoria,  Illinois  : 

"  This  will  probably  reach  you  too  late  to  be  of  any  service  for  the 
Kecord,  but  I  have  so  little  information  to  give  that  it  will  be  no  great 
loss. 

"  As  this  is  my  first  official  communication  since  leaving  Princeton 
more  than  eleven  years  ago,  I  enclose  a  small  contribution  to  the  Class 
fund.  It  is  not  at  all  commensurate  with  my  loyalty  to  the  Class  and 
pleasant  memories  of  the  old  times. 

"  In  regard  to  my  personal  history,  I  will  say  that  soon  after  leaving 
college  I  entered  the  First  National  Bank  of  this  city,  where  I  remained 
for  six  years,  when  I  was  obliged  to  give  up  work  on  account  of  ill- 
health,  and  was  unable  to  do  anything  for  more  than  a  year. 

"A  little  over  three  years  ago  I  obtained  a  position  in  the  auditor's 
office  of  the  American  Spirits  Manufacturing  Company,  and  have  been 
with  that  company  ever  since. 

"  At  present  I  am  in  charge  of  the  office  of  the  Manhattan  Distillery. 
This  business,  however,  is  not  congenial  to  me,  and  I  do  not  expect  to 
remain  in  it  much  longer. 

"A  general  negative  will  coverall  the  other  questions  of  your  circular. 

"  I  had  made  all  arrangements  for  attending  the  Keunion,  but  within 
the  last  week  things  have  occurred  which  will  probably  prevent  my  get- 
ting away  at  that  time.  This  is  a  great  disappointment,  as  I  had  been 
looking  forvvard  for  months  to  seeing  the  members  of  the  Class  again. 

"  I  have  ordered  a  '  memento  '  from  Waters,  and  as  1  cannot  possibly 
get  back  to  Nassau  Hall,  I  shall  see  that  it  performs  its  proper  function 
when  next  our  local  Princetonians  meet,  as  we  do  once  every  year.  My 
best  regards  to  all  the  old  crowd." 


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We  are  glad  to  say  that  McCulloch  was  able  to  attend  the  Decennial 
Eeunion  after  all.  He  received  a  warm  welcome,  and,  if  we  mistake  not, 
he  had  a  good  time. 

McKee  thus  cordially  and  promptly  re- 
McKee,  Thomas  M.  sponded  to  our  circular: 

"I  am  in  receipt  of  your  circular  asking 
for  a  letter  detailing  my  life  since  I  left  college,  and  herein  enclose  an- 
swers to  your  several  questions. 

"My  home  address  is  228  Ridge  avenue,  Allegheny  City,  Pennsyl- 
vania. My  business  address  is  care  Chambers  &  McKee  Glass  Co.,  Jean- 
nette,  Pennsylvania.  I  hold  the  position  of  Secretary  of  the  above-named 
company.  As  previously  reported,  I  was  married  November  27,  1889,  to 
Miss  Nellie  Foster  "Wood,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania.  We  have  one 
child,  a  boy,  H.  Sellers  McKee,  Jr.,  by  name,  who  was  born  February 
11,  1891. 

*'  From  the  time  I  left  college  until  November  11,  1892,  I  was  Secre- 
tary of  the  firm  of  McKee  &  Brother,  Jeannette,  Pennsylvania,  in  which 
company  I  am  still  a  partner.  On  the  above  date  I  became  Secretary  of 
the  Chambers  &  McKee  Glass  Co.,  and  hold  this  position  to-day. 

"  From  the  above  you  will  see  that  I  have  been  situated  at  Pitts- 
burgh since  I  left  college.  I  have  met  many  of  my  classmates  during 
this  time,  and  was  very  glad  indeed  to  have  them  recall  the  many  happy 
days  spent  at  college.  I  trust  to  attend  the  next  Reunion  of  our  Class,  in 
order  that  I  may  see  more  of  my  fellow-classmates.'' 

McLean  was  a  member  of  our  Class  from 
McLean,  William  B.  September,   1886,    to  June,  1887.     Since  the 

latter  date  his  whereabouts  have  been  un- 
known. A  large  reward  is  awaiting  him  who  will  send  us  his  present 
address.  Here  is  a  chance  for  those  of  our  number  who  are  of  an  inquir- 
ing turn  of  mind,  and  who  have  money  to  burn  and  time  to  spare. 

McMillan  spent   but  two  months  with 

McMillan,  William  T.  us,    September   and    October,   1895.     He   is 

.said   to    have   studied   medicine,    but  what 

locality  is  being  benefited  by  his  skill  we  do  not  know.     Phil  Rollins  does 

not  know  !     Who,  then,  can  know  !  ! 


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Writes  George  Merrill : 
Merrill,  George  Grenville  "  It  gives  me  much  pleasure  to 

send  you  some  particulars  about  my- 
self for  the  Decennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1889. 

"  My  present  home  address  is  Tuxedo  Park,  New  York,  where  I  am 
rector  of  St.  Mary's  Church.  I  married  on  December  1,  1897,  in  Trinity 
Church,  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  Miss  Pauline  Georgine  Warren  Dresser, 
daughter  of  the  late  Colonel  George  W.  Dresser,  United  States  Army. 

"  I  am  soon  to  complete  my  fifth  year  as  rector  of  this  church.  Dur- 
ing these  years  the  church  has  been  considerably  enlarged,  many  beautiful 
gifts  have  been  presented  to  the  church,  a  rectory  has  been  built  at  a  cost  of 
$12,000,  a  Sunday  School  room  has  also  been  built  and  then  enlarged,  and 
a  building  has  been  put  up  in  a  settlement  three  miles  off,  part  of  which 
building  is  arranged  as  a  club  room  for  men  and  boys,  and  the  other  part 
as  a  hall  tor  services  and  Sunday  Schools.  We  will  soon  begin  building 
a  Parish  House  at  a  cost  of  over  $6,000  in  connection  with  our  beautiful 
church.  Four  services  and  three  Sunday  Schools  are  held  every  Sunday 
in  the  parish — a  divinity  student  from  New  York  assisting  me.  We  also 
hope  to  begin  services  shortly  in  a  nearby  village.  It  would  take  me  too 
long  to  give  a  full  length  account  of  all  our  numerous  organizations.  I 
am  fully  persuaded  that  a  great  future  awaits  the  church  in  the  country 
districts,  and  we  must  seize  every  opportunity  to  make  our  Master  known 
and  loved.  My  training  at  Trinity  Church,  Princeton,  has  helped  me  a 
great  deal,  as  well  as  the  quiet  and  dignified  influence  of  the  dear  rector 
of  Princeton. 

"  The  friend  I  see  the  most  of  (I  am  speaking  of  my  classmates)  is 
Robie  Speer,  who  is  the  same  large-hearted,  intellectual,  good  man  he 
always  was. 

"  Every  year  I  take  a  short  holiday  and  run  over  to  Europe,  and  I 
am  here  one  hour  only  from  New  York,  all  of  which  keeps  me  in  touch 
with  the  great  world.  My  closing  advice  is.  that  what  the  world  needs 
more  than  anything  else  is  earnestness  and  perseverance.  Do  not  preach 
too  much,  but  live  the  creed  you  believe  in  and  God  will  abundantly  bless 
your  efforts." 

Billy  Merrill  is  improving  in  health,  his 
Merrill,  William  L.  brother  George  tells  us,  and  hopes  to  be  with 

us   at   our   next   Reunion.      He   sends    "  his 
kindest  and  best  wishes  to  the  Class  of  1889." 


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We  have  received  this  brief  response 
MiNOTT,  Frederick  S.  from  Minott: 

"  Replying  to  your  printed  circular  of 
April  first,  1  will  give  below  answers  to  as  many  of  its  questions  as  I 
can.  My  home  address  is  South  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  my  place 
of  business,  787  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y.  My  present  occupation 
is  Secretary  of  the  Goodyear  Rubber  Company.  I  am  not  married,  nor 
am  I  engaged.  The  remaining  six  questions  of  your  circular  I  must 
answer  in  the  negative.  I  know  of  nothing  else  that  would  be  of  interest 
to  my  classmates.     I  trust  that  you  are  well  and  prosperous." 

The  efficient  Treasurer  of  our  De- 
Mitchell,  Clarence  Blair  cennial  Memorial  Fund  gives  us  this 

to  publish  in  his  name  : 

"In  answer  to  your  notice  of  April  first,  I  would  say  that  I  have 
little  news  to  give  about  myself  for  the  Decennial  Record.  Since  1895  I 
have  been  practicing  law  in  connection  with  the  firm  of  Dillon  &  Hub- 
bard, but  owing  to  ill-health  was  obliged  to  go  abroad  and  considerably 
to  neglect  my  work  for  more  than  a  year,  but  am  now  getting  back  into 
shape.  My  only  connection  with  Princeton  aftairs  is  as  Treasurer  of  our 
Decennial  Fund  and  as  President  of  the  Ivy  Club, 

"  I  have  sold  my  home  at  Westchester  and  am  moving  to  Bernards- 
ville.  New  Jersey,  where  I  have  bought  land  adjoining  that  owned  by 
Blair  of  the  class  of  1890,  and  Percy  Pyne  of  the  class  of  1881.  My 
business  address  is  195  Broadway,  New  York  City  ;  my  home  address  is 
Bernardsville,  New  Jersey.  I  was  married  on  December  4,  1889,  to 
Lucy  Mildred,  daughter  of  Dr.  Josiah  Wright  Matthews  of  Cape  Town, 
South  Africa,  at  Irvington-on-Hudson,  I  have  four  children,  as  follows  : 
Clarence  Van  Schaick,  born  December  17,  1890  ;  Dorothy  Mildred,  born 
January  25,  1893;  Lucy  Virginia,  born  March  23,  1895;  and  Mildred 
Aurelia,  born  February  2,  1897.  With  the  exception  of  my  second 
daughter,  they  were  all  born  in  New  York  City." 

An  interesting  autobiography  from 
Montgomery,    Charles   J.  Montgomery  is  next  in  order  : 

"  In  answer  to  your  circular,  I  write 
responding  to  its  questions  as  numbered. 

"  My  home  address  is  Summerville,  near  Augusta,  Georgia.  My 
oflBce  is  at  No.  2  Law  Range,  Mcintosh  Street,  Augusta,  Georgia.     I  am 


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still  practicing  medicine.  I  am  not  married,  nor  am  I  engaged.  I  have 
held  the  following  offices  : 

"  First  Lieutenant  and  Assistant  Surgeon  Georgia  Volunteers,  from 
1895  to  date  ;  County  Physician  of  Kichmond  County,  Georgia,  from  1896 
to  date.  I  have  filled  the  positions  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  later 
Vice-President,  of  the  Augusta  Academy  of  Medicine,  about  1895  and 
1897. 

"  The  only  degree  I  have  received  since  taking  B.  S.  at  Princeton 
was  that  of  M.  D.  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1892. 

"  The  only  articles  I  have  published  were  of  a  medical  or  scientific 
nature,  and  appeared  in  the  Medical  Kecord  of  New  York,  the  Medical 
News  of  Philadelphia,  and  Atlanta  Medical  Journal. 

"  Being  so  far  separated  from  classmates  and  seeing  but  little  of  them, 
I  know  but  little  of  their  life.  I  saw  Kocky  Bonsai  a  few  times  within 
the  past  year  or  two,  while  he  was  engaged  in  constructing  a  fort  on 
Sullivan's  Island,  near  Charleston,  and  doing  other  contracting  work  in 
the  South.  His  address  when  last  beard  from  was  Hamlet,  North  Caro- 
lina. 

"  As  you  ask  for  my  experiences  within  the  last  four  years,  and  my 
expectations  for  the  future,  I  will  say  that  for  more  than  that  length  of 
time  I  have  been  practicing  medicine  in  Augusta  and  vicinity,  with  brief 
vacations,  and  hope  to  continue  to  do  so  for  some  time  to  come. 

"  Since  my  appointment  as  County  Physician  I  have  had  the  medical 
care  of  the  Kichmond  County  Home,  the  county  chain  gang,  and  the 
county  prisoners  at  the  jail,  also  treating  United  States  prisoners  needing 
attention,  and  doing  what  private  practice  my  time  and  inclination,  and 
the  wishes  of  my  patrons  required." 

When  we  opened  this  letter  we  ex- 
MoRRis,  Joseph  C,  Jr.  pected  a  treat  in  its  perusal,  and  we  were 

not  disappointed.    Nor  will  you  be.  Jacky 
Morris,  you  are  a  jewel ! 

"  If  I  had  anything  remarkable  to  tell  the  Class  I  would  do  so,  but  I 
have  not.  Since  the  Sexennial  I  have  not  succeeded  in  adding  any 
honors  to  the  Class  record.  My  attention,  therefore,  not  being  engaged 
in  the  contemplation  of  my  own  great  deeds,  I  have  time  to  rejoice  in 
those  of  my  classmates  who  have  positive  answers  for  questions  seven, 
eight  and  nine  of  our  Secretary's  circular.     Questions  four,  five  and  six 


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refer  to  those  who  have  fallen  by  the  wayside.  Alas  !  That  they  should 
be  80  numerous,  and  include  even  a  first-class  fighting  man,  like  S.  S. 
Thorpe,  commonly  known  as  '  The  Elder  Thrappe.' 

"  I  have  to  apologize  to  Boogus  Chase  for  the  trouble  at  his  wed- 
ding. I  do  so  thus  publicly,  because  he  vented  his  grievance  through 
the  Sexennial  Record.  Never  mind,  Boog.  (not  boozej,  here's  to  you! 
Let's  be  friends  once  more  ! 

"  I  was  at  the  Sesqui-centennial,  and  must  say  that  I  enjoyed  it 
immensely.  The  more  I  see  of  '89  the  more  satisfied  I  am  that  it  is  a 
warm  number.  I  call  to  witness  the  capita  of  Isaac  Rand,  of  New  York, 
and  Moses  Coale,  of  New  Jersey.  These  are  universally  admitted  to  be 
of  the  maximum  temperature  and  equal  in  Entropy.  Some  of  the  lesser 
lights  I  saw  in  New  York  City  in  1897 — Conover,  Rollins,  '  Governor  ' 
Gulick,  Hotchkiss,  Stevens,  Waters,  Scofield,  Taylor,  Bovaird  and  D. 
McCord.  All  these  men  were  looking  well  and  I  was  certainly  glad  to 
see  them. 

"  I  saw  Montgomery  last  Summer,  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Class  I 
announce  that  he  has  had  his  hair  cut.  No  mistake  this  time.  He  is 
now  a  prosperous  physician.  Perhaps  he  thinks  cutting  his  hair  will 
make  his  beard  grow.     Doctors  know  so  little. 

"  I  have  certainly  felt  keenly  the  loss  of  our  classmates  who  have 
crossed  the  great  divide,  and  I  hope  it  will  be  a  long  time  before  the  roll 
shall  be  any  further  reduced. 

"At  the  present  writing  I  see  no  possible  chance  of  getting  oflf  to  the 
Decennial  Reunion.  No  one  will  miss  it  more.  I  wish  all  the  Class  a 
prosperous  and  contented  life.  To  the  ladies  and  the  children,  who  both 
honor  and  are  honored  by  their  relations  to  the  Class  of  1889,  I  make 
my  best  bow.  To  you,  Mr.  Secretary,  who  performs  so  much  work  for 
our  common  pleasure,  I  express  my  appreciative  thanks." 

We  are  all  glad  that  Morris  was  so  pleasantly  disappointed  with 
reference  to  the  Decennial  Reunion.  He  found  that  it  would  be  possible 
for  him  to  be  present  after  all ;  which  means,  of  course,  that  he  was  pres- 
ent.    And  we  believe  that  he  felt  himself  abundantly  repaid  for  coming. 

This   letter,   written   from   Mount's  home 
Mount,  William  B.  in  Philadelphia,  contains  a  confession   which 

places  Mac  Bayard  in  the  light  of  a  prophet. 
We  extend  to  Mount  our  oflicial  congratulations  on  his  engagement. 


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"I  hope  you  will  pardon  my  long  delay,  but  feel  sure  you  will 
undarstand  my  silence  when  I  tell  you  that  it  is  only  since  the  arrival  of 
your  note  that  I  have  become  engaged.  Please  do  not  mention  the  fact 
for  a  few  weeks,  as  this  engagement  will  not  be  announced  before  the 
middle  or  latter  part  of  May ;  but,  of  course,  you  may  insert  it  in  the 
Decennial  Kecord.  The  unfortunate  girl  is  Miss  Mary  W.  Miller, 
daughter  of  Rev.  James  Russell  Miller,  D.D.,  of  Philadelphia. 

"Since  the  appearance  of  the  Sexennial  Record  1  have  kept  up  my 
reputation  as  a  '  globe  trotter,'  having  spent  a  year  and  a  half  abroad, 
mostly  in  France  and  Italy.  About  a  year  ago  I  started  a  small  business 
enterprise  in  Marseilles,  France.  Although  by  no  means  a  failure,  the 
aflair  is  not  a  howling  success,  but  it  is  worth  something  to  have  had  a 
number  of  amusing  experiences  with  the  people  of  the  south  of  France.  I 
am  also  interested  in  another  little  enterprise  connected  with  some  marl 
fields  in  North  Carolina.  But  work  there  can  hardly  be  begun  before 
June. 

"  I  certainly  hope  to  be  present  at  the  Reunion,  unless  some  of  my 
affairs  should  call  me  away  at  the  last  moment." 

A  month  later  we  received  this  note,  which  explains  Mount's  ab- 
sence from  the  Reunion  : 

'*  I  have  put  off  writing  you  until  now,  hoping  that  my  affairs  could 
be  differently  arranged,  but  they  cannot,  and  I  am  very  sorry  to  say  that 
I  cannot  be  present  at  the  Decennial ;  at  least,  do  not  make  any  arrange- 
ments for  me.  If  when  the  time  comes  I  can  get  off  any  day,  I  shall  run 
up  to  Princeton. 

"  The  little  enterprise  in  which  I  am  interested  in  North  Carolina 
should  be  ready  for  work  about  the  middle  of  June,  or  perhaps  a  little 
before  ;  and  as  the  beginning  is  a  critical  time,  I  do  not  see  how  I  can 
get  away.  But  I  can  tell  you  that  I  am  sorry  to  miss  seeing  all  the  fel- 
lows, and  I  still  hope  that  I  may  get  up  to  Princeton  for  a  day.  My 
engagement  is  now  announced,  so  you  need  keep  it  no  longer  a  secret." 

We  share  in  Mount's  regret  over  his  enforced  absence. 

The  first  thought  of  your  Class  Secre- 

MUDGE,  Lewis  Seymour  tary  was  to  request  some  other  member  of 

the  Class  to  write  a  sketch  of  his  life  since 

the   publication   of  the  Sexennial   Record.     Fearing,   however,  that  he 

would  thus  throw  himself  open  to  the  charge  of  inconsistency,  since  he 


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had  insisted  that  each  member  of  the  Class  should  write  his  own  story  for 
the  Decennial  Kecord,  he  finally  decided  to  venture  upon  the  field  of 
autobiography,  and  with  this  result : 

On  the  first  day  of  September,  1895,  after  having  spent  a  month  at 
Lake  George  and  in  the  Adirondacks  in  an  endeavor  to  regain  the  vigor 
of  mind  and  body  which  he  had  lost  in  the  preparation  of  the  Sexennial 
Kecord,  he  went  into  bachelor  quarters  at  Beverly,  New  Jersey,  and  took 
charge  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  that  place.  On  the  ninth  day  of 
the  following  October  he  was  ordained  as  Bishop  of  Beverly  by  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Monmouth,  and  formally  installed  as  pastor.  And,  he  would 
remark  parenthetically  for  the  benefit  of  his  Episcopal  brethren,  his  hav- 
ing been  made  Bishop  of  Beverly  is  a  fact,  not  a  joke. 

The  next  event  of  importance  in  his  life,  indeed  the  event  of  his  life, 
was  his  marriage  to  Miss  Caroline  Denny  Paxton  of  Princeton,  on  the 
eleventh  of  February,  1896.  The  ceremony  was  performed  in  Marquand 
Chapel,  and  he  was  ably  assisted  at  the  altar  by  Billy  Paxton  as  best  man, 
and  by  David  Bovaird  and  Fred  Neher  as  ushers.  And  it  is  worthy  of 
remark  in  passing  that  his  conduct  on  that  occasion  was  such  as  to  in- 
spire each  of  these  his  classmates  to  go  and  do  likewise.  Indeed,  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  no  other  marriage  in  all  history  has  been  more  productive  of 
good  results  to  the  persons  immediately  concerned  therein,  and  to  the  par- 
ticipants directly  connected  therewith,  than  his. 

Since  his  marriage  your  Secretary  has  been  living  the  rather  unevent- 
ful life  of  a  suburban  clergyman,  and  his  labors  have  been  crowned  with 
a  larger  measure  of  success  than  the  services  rendered  should  have  secured. 
His  summers  have  been  passed  at  Lake  George,  and  there  as  well  as  in 
Princeton,  which  later  place  it  has  been  his  privilege  to  visit  frequently, 
he  has  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  many  of  his  classmates.  In  the  fall 
of  1898  he  was  invited  to  take  charge  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Doylestown,  Pennsylvania,  but  felt  constrained  to  decline.  On  May 
twenty-fourth  last  he  received  a  unanimous  call  to  become  the  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  Having  accept- 
ed, he  ended  his  pastorate  in  Beverly  on  June  twenty-sixth  last,  and  ex- 
pects to  enter  upon  his  new  duties  in  September. 

On  June  the  thirteenth  last  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 
The  only  other  ofiicial  positions  which  he  has  held  during  the  last  four 
years  have  been  such  as  usually  fall  to  the  lot  of  a  pastor  in  his  presbytery 
and  in  his  place  of  residence. 


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The  only  degree  which  he  has  received  is  that  of  Doctor  of  Divinity. 
With  this  he  has  heen  honored  frequently,  not  indeed  by  the  colleges  of 
the  country,  hut  by  correspondents  in  their  letters  to  him,  by  book  agents 
during  their  calls  upon  him,  by  life  insurance  solicitors  while  they  bored 
him,  and  by  tradesmen,  trainmen  and  tramps  too  numerous  to  mention 
either  by  calling  or  by  name. 

In  the  products  which  are  of  the  pen,  your  Secretary  has  been  most 
prolific.  His  literary  ventures,  however,  if  they  have  met  the  public  view 
at  all,  have  been  "  printed,  not  published."  This  may  seem  strange  to 
those  of  his  friends  who  are  aware  of  his  marked  prowess  as  a  literateur, 
but  it  is  explained  by  the  fact  that  he  has  been  retained  as  Secretary  by  the 
Class  of  1889,  and  therefore  feels  constrained  to  confine  his  printed  pro- 
ductions to  such  publications  as  may  be  called  forth  by  this  position. 

His  most  notable  discovery  is  this,  that  even  with  the  members  of 
such  a  perfect  Class  as  is  his  own  for  correspondents,  it  is  seemingly  im- 
possible to  formulate  a  circular  asking  for  personal  information  which  will 
secure  from  them  prompt  responses.  It  is  exceedingly  painful  for  him  to 
be  compelled  to  make  this  confession,  for  to  the  uninitiated  it  must  seem 
passing  strange  that  a  Class  Secretary  of  ten  years'  standing  has  failed  to 
find  a  formula  which  will  cure  persistent  procrastination  and  compel 
prompt  production.  However,  such  is  the  fact,  and  he  can  only  say  by 
way  of  extenuation  that  he  intends  to  continue  his  search  for  the  as  yet 
unfound  secret,  and  to  secure  it  as  his  own,  if  a  Class  Secretary  can. 

In  conclusion,  he  would  return  his  hearty  thanks  to  the'  Class  for  the 
many  expressions  of  appreciation  which  the  letters  of  its  members  have 
contained.  It  is  indeed  a  task  demanding  much  patience  and  persistence 
to  produce  an  even  partially  perfect  Class  Record,  but  the  labor  involved 
carries  with  it  its  own  reward.  For,  if  the  result  is  a  welcome  visitor  to 
the  homes  of  its  recipients,  as  your  Secretary  trusts  this  little  volume  will 
be,  he  feels  sure  that  each  greeting  which  it  gains  will  carry  with  it  a 
hearty  handclasp  for  him,  a  seat  at  the  reader's  side,  and  perhaps  a  larger 
and  warmer  place  in  his  heart.  Surely  your  Secretary  should  rest  content 
if  such  returns  are  his.     That  such  rewards  may  be  his,  is  his  earnest  hope. 

"When  the  Sexennial   Record  went  to  press 
Nakagawa,  Aisaku  Nakagawa   was  an  assistant  in  Dr.    Kitasato's 

Institute  for  Infectious  Diseases  at  Tokio,  Japan , 
With  reference  to  this  position  Bovaird  writes  us : 


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"  Kitasato  made  a  great  reputation  for  himself  while  working  in 
Koch's  laboratory  in  Berlin,  and  is  considered  a  truly  great  man  in  bac- 
teriology. So  it  was  no  small  honor  for  Nakagawa  to  get  a  place  in  his 
laboratory."  He  continued  his  investigations  under  Dr.  Kitasato 's  super- 
vision until  September,  1898,  when  he  was  oflFered  and  accepted  the  chair 
of  Bacteriology  and  Hygiene  in  the  Medical  College  at  Sendai,  one  of  the 
five  government  institutions  which  rank  next  to  the  National  University. 
Concerning  this  appointment  Bovaird  writes  us  :  "  From  time  to  time 
I  have  seen  little  notes  in  the  journals  showing  that  Nakagawa  was  at 
work,  and  this  promotion  has  evidently  come  to  him  as  the  result  of  his 
work."  And  he  adds,  "  I  have  recently  read  an  article  by  Nakagawa 
and  Kitasato  on  '  The  Plague,'  in  the  '  Twentieth  Century  Practice  of 
Medicine.'  "  As  others  of  our  number  may  have  read  with  interest  this 
same  article  we  append  a  bit  of  the  inner  history  of  the  same,  as  told 
Bovaird  by  Nakagawa  : 

"  Let  me  tell  you  how  I  came  to  write  that  article.  At  first  K  was 
to  prepare  the  whole  thing,  and  the  translation  (into  English)  came  to  be 
my  share.  But  K  found  that  he  did  not  know  anything  about  the  plague 
worth  writing,  and  as  he  also  found  that  the  fate  of  his  KB  was  doomed 
beyond  any  hope  of  recovery,  he  tried  very  hard  to  shift  the  whole  respon. 
sibility  on  my  shoulder.  It  so  happened  that  the  shoulder  in  question 
was  not  able  to  bear  such  a  burden,  and  hence  the  concise  appendix. 
I  hope  that  it  will  show  that  I  was  not  blindly  following  K,  and  that  the 
claim  of  YB  has  not  been  disregarded  by  me. 

"  It  was  a  piece  of  work  that  I  was  least  willing  to  do,  but  my  posi- 
tion obliged  me  to  do  it  notwithstanding.  It  was  also  a  work  which  had 
to  be  done  in  very  short  time.  I  started  in  the  work  of  preparation  only 
after  the  date  at  which  the  MSS.  has  been  due  at  the  editor's  desk.  I  am 
therefore  much  surprised  that  you  did  not  write  me  a  severe  criticism  on 
it — perhaps  it  is  because  you  tried  to  be  extremely  indulgent  to  your 
friend. 

"Personally  I  believe  YB  to  be  the  real  microbe  of '  the  plague.'  I  have 
not,  it  is  true,  examined  any  case  of  plague  myself;  but  the  great  multi- 
tude of  those  that  studied  the  thing  in  Bombay  and  Formosa  all  confirm 
YB,  and  do  not  even  mention  a  single  datum  which  can  be  construed  to 
be  favorable  to  KB." 

The  above  was  written  on  September  28,  1898,  the  day  before  Naka- 
gawa left  Tokio  for  Sendai,     We  learn  from  Warren  that  he  is  still  un- 


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married.     Certainly  the  Class  is  well  represented  in  Japan.     We  send 
Nakagawa  our  best  wishes  for  the  future. 

Here  is  a  victory  for  the  Class  Secretary,  won  at 
Neher,  Fred  the  expense  of  the  modesty  of  Fred  Neher.     He  has 

this  to  say  for  himself: 

"  In  the  summer  of  1895  I  took  up  the  study  of  Organic  Chemistry 
at  the  University  of  Chicago.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  I  re- 
returned  to  Princeton,  and  during  the  succeeding  college  terms 
fulfilled  my  duties  as  Instructor  in  Chemistry.  In  July,  1896,  I 
returned  to  the  University  of  Chicago  for  a  residence  of  two 
years.  During  this  period  my  time  was  devoted  mainly  to  research  work 
in  Organic  Chemistry.  On  September  7,  1898,  I  was  married  to  Miss 
Harriet  Hutchins,  at  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  and  we  took  up  our  residence  on 
Prospect  avenue  in  Princeton  at  the  opening  of  the  college  year.  During 
the  past  nine  months  I  have  had  charge  of  the  laboratory  work  in 
Analytical  Chemistry  in  the  John  C.  Green  School  of  Science.  I  have 
opened  a  new  four  hour  Junior  Academic  elective,  and  hope  in  the  near 
future  to  offer  several  new  courses  in  Organic  Chemistry.  Oh  !  how  I 
hate  to  answer  your  bloomed  circular!  "     Hence  our  victory  ! 

"  We  would  add  that  Neher  was  elected  Assistant  Professor  of 
Chemistry  before  the  beginning  of  the  college  year  which  has 
just  drawn  to  a  close,  and  that  his  earnest  efforts  to  enlarge  the  scope  of 
his  department  and  to  bring  its  instruction  up-to-date  have,  in  spite  of 
some  opposition,  been  crowned  with  a  large  measure  of  success.  Those  of 
our  number  who  have  specialized  in  chemistry  at  Princeton  in  days  gone 
by,  and  who  have  thus  had  the  opportunity  to  realize  the  need  of  advance 
in  this  branch  of  science  as  taught  at  Princeton,  will  surely  appreciate 
what  Neher  is  attempting  to  accomplish,  and  will  offer  him  their  hearty 
approval  and  cordial  support. 

Noel  offers  this  report  concerning  himself : 
Noel,  Henry  G.  "  I  am  in  receipt  of  your  circular  letter  asking 

for  material  for  the  Class  Record.  My  experiences 
within  the  last  four  years  have  not  been  of  a  sort  to  furnish  much  inter- 
eating  reading.  I  am  and  haye  been  in  the  bond  and  stock  business,  be- 
ing Vice-President  of  the  Noel- Young  Bond  and  Stock  Co.,  the  principal 


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business  of  which  is  the  buying  and  selling  of  municipal  bonds,  carried  on 
in  connection  with  a  local  brokerage  business. 

"  The  ordinary  routine  of  business  has  not  been  interrupted  except  by 
occasional  pleasure  trips  during  vacations.  During  the  winter  of  1897- 
1898  I  took  quite  an  extended  trip  through  Mexico,  covering  most  of  the 
principal  points  of  interest,  and  collected  enough  material  for  a  book, 
which,  however,  has  not  been  published. 

"  I  have  seen  very  little  of  my  classmates  during  the  past  four  years, 
and  regret  that  I  cannot  tell  you  anything  of  interest  on  this  head. 

"  In  reply  to  your  further  questions,  I  would  say  that  my  home  ad- 
dress is  4187  Morgan  Street,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  my  place  of  business 
304  North  Fourth  Street,  in  the  same  city. 

"  As  was  noted  in  the  Triennial  Record,  I  was  married  to  Miss  Lena 
Bird  Wylie  in  St.  Louis  on  June  3,  1890.  We  now  have  four  children, 
all  of  whom  were  born  in  St.  Louis.  Their  names  and  the  dates  of  their 
births  are  as  follows  :  Lois  Edwards  Noel,  born  April  26,  1891 ;  Henry 
Martyn  Noel,  born  July  18,  1892  ;  Alice  Rose  Noel,  born  March  22,  1894  ; 
and  Lena  Lovett  Noel,  born  April  24,  1898.  I  hope  that  this  summary 
will  prove  satisfactory." 

Noel  was  present  at  the  Decennial  Reunion,  and,  among  others, 
brought  his  wife  with  him. 

"  Victor  Kauffman  tells  me  I  must  write 
NoYES,  Thomas  C.  you  a  biography  for  the  Decennial.     I  received 

a  circular  from  you  to  the  same  effect,  but  as  it 
was  dated  April  first,  I  thought  it  was  a  joke.  I  know  there  have 
been  some  great  things  I  have  accomplished  in  the  last  four  years,  but  I 
cannot  recall  them  now.  Ever  since  graduation  I  have  been  on  the 
"Washington  Evening  Star,  in  different  capacities,  as  has  Kauffman,  and 
we  have  gone  up  a  peg  or  so  from  time  to  time.  I  am  now  City  Editor  of 
the  paper  and  get  free  passes  and  graj'  hairs  in  consequence. 

"  You  noted  my  marriage  in  the  Sexennial,  and  it  is  only  necessary 
for  me  to  say  that  I  am  still  married. 

"  The  crop  of  honors  has  been  small  around  in  my  neighborhood,  but 
I  must  not  forget— and  this  will  drive  Colonel  Bill  Jenny  wild  with 
envy — that  I  was  Adjutant-General  of  the  civic  part  of  the  McKinley 
inaugural  parade.  I  rode  a  tan  horse  and  wore  a  blue  sash,  and  yellow 
gloves  which  shed.      I  rode  madly  up  and  down  the  line  and  shouted 


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orders  that  nobody  understood  or  paid  any  attention  to.  When  it  was  all 
over  I  was  covered  with  glory  and  yellow  lint.  The  Democratic  parade 
in  Princeton,  before  our  graduation,  was  not  in  it  for  one  minute.  I 
have  written  one  or  two  '  pieces  '  for  the  papers,  but  they  are  not  of 
consequence. 

"  My  eyes  have  been  ruined  looking  for  Eighty-nine  men  in  Wash- 
ington, but  I  have  seen  very  few.  I  saw  Brownlee  once.  He  was  look- 
ing fine,  and  I  have  a  horrible  suspicion — I  do  not  want  to  do  him  an 
injustice,  but  I  must  speak, — I  have  a  horrible  suspicion  that  he  is  going 
to  get  rich. 

"  That  is  all,  Lewis  ;  except  that  I  wish  you  would  not  call  me 
'  Tommy.'  My  friends  never  called  me  '  Tommy  '  even  when  I  was  sick 
and  feeble.  My  life  might  have  been  very  different  had  not  a  Sunday- 
school  teacher  once,  when  I  was  seven  years  years  old,  called  me  '  Tommy.' 
I  never  went  to  Sunday-school  again.  Once  I  attended  a  class  prayer-meet- 
ing at  Princeton,  and  a  man  said  to  me  in  a  tone  of  great  surprise  : 

"  '  Why,  Tommy  Noyes,  what  are  you  doing  here  ?  ' 

' '  I  can  present  creditable  testimony  that  I  never  went  to  prayer- 
meeting  again.  I  run  along  for  several  years  as  a  fairly  respectable 
citizen,  and  then  one  of  your  publications  comes  out  with  its  'Tommy,' 
and  I  immediately  become  wild  and  frenzied  for  weeks  ;  insult  every- 
body, rob  a  bank,  turn  my  hand  in  short  to  any  villainy  that  is  presented. 
You  are  a  minister,  Lewis,  and  you  should  not  incite  people  to  crime. 

"  In  conclusion,  let  me  say  that  the  things  I  have  done  are  as  nothing 
to  those  which  I  look  forward  to  doing.  I  have  said  I  was  going  to 
Princeton  for  the  Decennial,  and  going  alone.  My  wife  says  I  may  be 
going  to  Princeton,  but  I  am  not  going  alone.  If  I  go  alone  it  will 
be  the  greatest  triumph  of  my  life." 

He  came  to  the  Decennial  Keunion  alone !  We  offer  our  apologies 
for  having  incited  Tom  to  evil  by  the  use  of  an  inappropriate  epithet,  and 
promise  never  to  employ  it  again.  We  have  had  some  experience  with 
the  aroused  wrath  of  "City  Editors"  and  hold  them  in  high  respect. 
We  shall  hereafter  refer  to  the  subject  of  the  above  sketch  as  the  Honor- 
able Thomas  C.  Noyes  of  the  "  Washington  Star."  We  hope  that  the 
"  Honorable  "  will  exercise  a  restraining  influence  over  him  and  induce 
him  to  return  to  Sunday-school.  But  is  Thomas  C.  Noyes  of  the  City  of 
Washington,  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  worthy  of  the  title  of  "  Honor- 
able?"    Certainly!     Why?    Because,  as  the  official  envelopes  used  by 


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its  editors  barefacedly  declare,  "  The  Evening  Star  has  a  regular,  perma- 
nent, bona  fide  daily  circulation  more  than  treble  that  of  any  other  daily 
paper  published  in  Washington,  and  much  greater  than  that  of  all  the 
other  daily  papers  here  added  together." 

Another  victory  rests  on  our  banners. 
Paxton,  William  M.,  Jr.  Billy  Paxton  has  actually  written  a  letter 

for  the  Kecord.     Kead  it,  therefore,  with 
all  due  reverence  : 

'  "  Your  request  for  information  for  the  Class  Kecord  received.  I  was 
abroad  at  the  time  of  our  Sexennial,  and  am  looking  forward  to  the  com- 
ing Keunion  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure. 

"  Since  our  last  Reunion  I  have  spent  most  of  my  time  in  New  York 
City  looking  after  the  different  business  interests  I  have  there. 

"  Last  summer,  accompanied  by  my  wife,  I  spent  several  months  in 
Europe,  returning  in  time  to  spend  the  fall  at  our  country  place  at  Lake 
George. 

"  In  reply  to  your  questions  I  would  say  that  my  home  address  is  20 
Library  Place,  Princeton,  New  Jersey. 

"  On  May  12,  1897,  I  married  Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth  Thomas  in  New 
York  City. 

"  I  have  recently  become  associated  in  business  with  Mr.  C.  F.  Froth- 
ingharn,  a  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  For  the  present, 
therefore,  my  business  address  is  20  Broad  Street,  New  York  City." 

On  May  fourteenth  we  received  a  postal 
Pemberton,  Russell  card  from  Pemberton  bearing  this  inscription, 

"Notices  received.     Don't  send  any  more,  I 
might  get  heart  disease.     Letter  will  follow  in  a  few  days."     In  "  a  few 
days,"  to  be  exact,  in  twenty-nine  days  this  letter  followed  : 
"  Dear  Classmate,  and  Honorable  Secretary  of  Princeton's  Most  Illustrious 

Class  : 

"  That's  the  proper  form,  I  believe.  Vide  p.  86,  Liberis  Sexennii 
Classis  Optimae  CoUegii  Neo-Ciesariensis.  Lovely,  is  it  not,  to  have  for 
Secretary  a  Latin  Valedictorian  that  will  kindly  edit  such  Latinisms  as 
may  have  slipped  their  polish  since  the  days  when  Proudfit  received  hon- 
orable mention  in  the  Biological  Fellowship  Contest,  and  '  Doc  '  Shrady 


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started  in  to  justify  his  title  ?   We  might  have  started  '  Dear  Mudgie  '  but 
for  Jack's  tip. 

"Since  June,  1895 — well,  let's  see — Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  en- 
shrined me  then.  The  following  November  I  moved  clinical  thermome- 
ters, a  silver  sign,  and  some  assorted  bandages — not  one  missing  from  the 
original  purchase — to  Highland  Avenue,  Chestnut  Hill,  Philadelphia. 

"  There  I  practiced  medicine  and  pushed  a  pen  whose  graceful  delin- 
eations and  incisive  vigors  the  blue  pencil  magnates  now  and  then 
acknowleged  by  autographs  footing  some  such  legend  as  '  Pay  to  the  order 
of  etc'  Dix  will  explain  all  this  kind  of  business  to  any  of  the  members 
of  '89  that  will  write  him,  eyiclosing  stamped  envelope  self-addressed. 

"  In  the  fall  of  1897  I  had  to  leave  because  Bayard  managed  the 
Pennsylvania  Kailroad  so  poorly,  and  because  the  climate  was  a  little 
rasping  on  a  throat  strained  some  seven  years  ago  at  the  time  when 
'  Napoleon '  lectured  from  the  cannon's  top.  En  passant,  as  Jase  might 
have  said,  but  never  did,  there  was  too  much  winter  about  Chestnut  Hill. 

"  Virginia  gave  me  her  Southern  welcome — a  welcome  always  of 
peculiar  virtue  to  us  who  breathed  in  Dixie  breezes  as  our  gentle  colored 
mammies  'toted  de  chill'n  out  fob  er  wauk.'  Yes,  the  Old  Dominion  I 
found  still  true  to  its  traditions,  hospitable,  with  its  warm  right  hand  wide 
open,  counting  no  cost  of  entertainment,  and  spleenless  to  any  whose 
adolescence  Necessity  apportioned  to  be  spent  on  Northern  soil.  But  I 
beg  you — all's  pardon  for  using  these  terms.  The  clarion-call  a  year 
ago  obliterated  all  that  sullenly  simmered  between  the  years  of 
1865  and  1898,  and  it  gave  a  new  life  to  the  spirit  of  1776. 
Pardon  my  prolixity.  But  if  Monty,  Eoger,  and  Rocky  Bonsai 
will  allow  me  the  floor  for  eighty-nine  seconds  by  sidereal  time  of  the  only 
man  that  ever  discovered  anything  fresh  about  The  Old  Class — and  took 
three  years  to  do  that — I  really  would  like  to  rise  to  point  of  geodesy,  and 
ask  by  what  right  Mason,  Dixon  and  Company  ever  drew  such  a  thing  as 
a  line  anyhow  ?  Small  thanks  to  those  modern  agents  of  Terminus,  we 
are  again  renewing  our  youth  :  the  days  when  Princeton,  above  all  col- 
leges, boasted  a  goodly  austral  representation,  when  progeny  of  Cavalier 
met  man  for  man  in  academic  competition  the  scions  ,of  the  Roundhead. 
If  you  do  not  believe  it  look  up  the  registers  of  184-  and  185-.  As  far  as 
I  can  judge  by  conversation  with  representative  educational  men  of  this 
section,  we  still  approve  the  energizing  infusion  of  Jersey  pluck,  and  we 
hope  Nassau  still  asks  from  us  the  best  we  have  that  she  may  make  it 
better. 


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"  Yes,  I  am  once  more  in  Eichmond.  Few  alumni  of  Princeton  are 
within  the  town — none  others  of  1889.  I  have  not  seen  a  Princeton  man 
in  what  seems  ages,  and  I  am  a-hungry  for  the  leit-motif  of  the  '  Happy 
Chorus.'     And  I  cannot  get  to  the  Decennial  !    How  is  that  for  luck  ! 

"  As  regards  the  future,  1  dare  not  itemize.  Who,  indeed,  may? 
At  the  present  writing,  June  of  Decennial  year,  investigating  the  physiol- 
ogical ills  of  our  good  citizens,  and  scrapping  with  germs  and  patent  med- 
icine men  is  on  the  card  for  me.  One  of  my  main  regrets  about  anchor- 
age here  is  the  two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  or  so  that  lie  between  this 
office  and  the  water-tower  that  tops  midway  the  ridge  of  hills  'twixt 
Philly-town  and  Gotham. 

"  Long  life  to  the  Tiger  rampant,  with  a  lily  in  her  dexter  paw,  and 
to  crested  '  '89.'" 

Pemberton  adds  these  answers  to  our  questions  : 

"  My  home  address  is  820  West  Franklin  Street,  Richmond,  Virginia. 
My  office  will  be  found  at  17  West  Grace  Street,  Richmond,  Virginia.  I 
am  neither  married  nor  engaged.    'I  have  received  no  degrees  since  1895. 

"  As  to  your  question  concerning  literary  efforts,  due  modesty  and 
lack  of  space  prevent  my  answering  this  in  full.     Also  lack  of  editorial 

appreciation ,  and,  besides,  some  MMS.  are  wandering  still.     I  would 

gladly  give  you  some  information  concerning  classmates  if  I  could.  The 
pleasure  of  so  doing  would  frank  the  pains." 


From  the  office  of  the  General  Super- 
Pershing,  Cyrus  L.,  Jr.  intendent    of  the    Pennsylvania    Railroad 

Company,  Altoona,  Pennsylvania,  Persh- 
ing writes  us : 

"  As  to  the  Record,  I  am  sorry  to  say  that  my  life  has  been  very  un- 
eventful for  the  last  four  years.  Since  the  Sexennial  Reunion  I  have  been 
working  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  as  a  Civil  Engineer.  Most  of  the 
time  I  have  been  in  the  Maintenance  of  Way  Department  under  Mr. 
Joseph  T.  Richards.  For  the  last  month  I  have  been  at  Altoona,  in  the 
office  of  the  Principal  Assistant  Engineer  of  this  division  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad.  I  suppose  the  rest  of  my  life  will  be  given  to  railroading 
in  some  form,  probably  with  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad." 

We  are  sorry  that  Pershing  was  unable  to  attend  the  Reunion.  He 
is  not  married,  and  declares  that  he  has  no  matrimonial  prospects. 


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As  usual,  Philip  has  not  deigned  to  make 
Philip,  J.  Van  Ness  any  reply  to  our  numerous  requests  for  informa- 

tion. We  learn,  however,  that  he  enlisted  in 
the  army  at  the  opening  of  the  late  war,  and  is  at  present  Adjutant  at  the 
headquarters  of  the  Fourth  United  States  Volunteer  Infantry,  Manzanillo, 
Cuba.  His  promotion  to  a  captaincy  in  the  Provisional  Army  which  is 
being  organized  for  service  in  the  Philippine  Islands,  as  this  is  passing 
through  the  press,  has  just  been  publicly  announced. 

"  Polly,"  as  his  letter  will  reveal,  is 
POLLISON,  Clifford  C.  doing  literally  what  some  of  our  number  re- 

gret that  they  are  unable  to  do  figuratively. 
He  writes  us  : 

"  This  is  to  inform  you  that  I  am  still  alive,  still  single,  childless  and 
unengaged.  I  am  also  unencumbered  by  official  positions,  degrees, 
books  or  patented  inventions  and  processes.  Waverly  Park,  New  Jersey, 
is  my  home,  and  Grand  Street  and  Pacific  Avenue,  Jersey  City,  my  busi- 
ness address. 

"  Since  the  Sexennial  I  have  spent  one  year  in  farming,  one  in  loafing, 
and  two  in  the  ice  business,  and  have  been  fairly  successful  in   each  line. 

"I  am  still  in  the  ice  industry,  and  am  running  the  Jersey  City  de- 
pot of  a  firm  doing  business  in  Newark  and  Jersey  City. 

"  We  get  our  product  up  in  the  Alleghenys  in  Bum  Brownlee's 
State,  so  of  course  it  cannot  be  beat. 

"  I  trust  our  Decennial  will  in  some  measure  reflect  credit  upon  your 
untiring  efforts." 

Proudflt  thus  responds  to  our  circular  : 
Proudfit,   John  W.  "  Keplying  to  your  questions  contained  in 

circular  of  April  first,  1899,  I  would  say 
that  my  home  address  is  the  El  Paso  Club,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado, 
and  my  business  offices  are  to  be  found  in  Kooms  9-10-11  of  the  Hagerman 
Building,  Colorado  Springs,  Colorado.  I  am  a  broker,  and  deal  in  mines, 
bonds  and  securities.  I  am  not  married,  nor  am  I  engaged.  I  have  held 
no  official  positions  aside  from  being  on  various  governing  committees  of 
clubs,  exchanges,  etc.  I  have  received  no  degrees  since  graduation.  I 
have  issued  several  pamphlets  descriptive  of  the  mines  of  Cripple  Creek, 
Colorado,  the  first  of  which  was  translated  into  French  and  German,  and 
was  quite  extensively  circulated  in  Europe  and  this  country. 


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"  In  general  I  can  only  say  that  I  have  been  especially  interested  in 
mining  for  the  past  nine  years,  with  varing  success.  The  first  year  or  two, 
I  was  so  very  successful  that  I  was  led  to  go  in  more  deeply  than  my  re- 
sources should  have  permitted,  and  the  following  five  or  six  years  were 
rather  lean. 

"  Brownlee  and  Basil  Kicketts  are  almost  the  only  ones  I  have  seen 
in  Colorado  in  the  past  two  years.  Jim  Thorpe  comes  out  here  occa- 
sionally, but  I  have  been  so  unfortunate  as  to  miss  him  every  time  he  has 
called.     He  did  not  leave  his  address,  so  I  was  unable  to  see  him. 

"  I  should  certainly  like  to  take  this  opportunity  of  saying  that  when- 
ever any  of  our  men  are  in  Colorado  I  sincerely  hope  they  will  look  me 
up.  My  office  and  club  are  always  headquarters  for  any  of  the  Princeton 
men  who  may  be  in  Colorado  Springs.  I  am  frequently  in  Denver,  so  it 
is  always  well  to  inquire  at  the  Denver  Club  whether  I  am  there  or  not.' 
Later  we  received  the  following  letter,  which  we  append,  as  it  contains 
some  additional  facts  of  general  interest,  and  because  Proudtit  was  unable 
to  be  present  at  the  Decennial  Keunion. 

"  I  enclose  herewith  particulars  in  regard  to  my  career  for  the  last 
few  years,  which  I  trust  will  cover  the  requirements  of  the  Decennial 
Kecord.  It  is  very  difficult  to  tell  exactly  what  will  be  of  interest  to 
others,  and  I  have  hesitated  to  go  into  such  details  as  might  be  given  in  a 
private  conversation,  an  opportunity  for  which,  I  trust,  will  be  afforded  at 
the  Keunion  in  June.  In  case,  however,  I  should  be  prevented  from 
being  present,  I  would  say  that  I  have  been  pursuing  the  even  tenor  of  my 
way  since  1895,  and  have  succeeded  in  building  up  a  business  in  mines  and 
mining  securities  which  is  quite  widely  known  in  this  country  and  in 
Europe. 

"  I  have  had  occasion  to  be  in  the  Eastern  States  more  than  usual  dur- 
ing the  past  two  years,  and  so  have  seen  a  number  of  our  men,  but  not 
frequently  enough  to  be  able  to  give  you  many  details  in  regard  to  them. 
In  the  past  two  years  I  have  travelled  nearly  fifty  thousand  miles,  includ- 
ing a  trip  to  Europe  during  the  winter  of  1897-8.  Colorado,  my  home 
State,  is  on  the  thoroughfare  of  travel  from  the  Eastern  States  to  the 
Pacific  Coast,  and  I  meet  many  Princeton  men  passing  through,  but  I 
am  sorry  to  say  that  thus  far  very  few  of  the  '89  men  have  shown  up  at 
Colorado  Springs. 

"  I  am  glad  to  say,  however,  that  now  the  prospects  are  very  bright 
and  my  business  is  in  a  flourishing  condition,  and  the  outlook  for  the 
future  is  decidedly  hopeful.     I  expect  to  continue  in  my  present  occupa- 


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tion,  and  believe  that  it  offers  one  of  the  best  fields  for  energy  and  perse- 
verance in  the  entire  range  of  business  callings." 

Writing  from  Washington,  District  of 
QuiNN,  Edmund  F.  Columbia,  Quinn  thus  summarizes  the  details  of 

his  life  since  1895  : 

"  Your  circular  letter  of  April  first,  addressed  to  me  at  Eaton,  Ohio, 
■was  forwarded  and  finally  reached  me  here.  I  can  give  you  no  address 
other  than  Eaton.  Any  other  address  I  might  give  would  only  be  for  the 
brief  period  of  a  few  days. 

During  the  last  four  years  I  have  been  in  the  employ  of  the  Ohio 
Republican  State  Executive  Committee.  Two  years  of  this  period  I  was 
the  assistant  to  the  chief  of  the  Speaker's  Department,  and  for  two  years, 
including  Hanna's  campaign  of  1897,  I  had  charge  of  the  Organization 
Department,  the  largest  department  of  the  committee. 

"  While  with  the  committee  I  was  also  for  a  time  connected  with  the 
State  Railroad  Commissioner's  ofiice,  and  in  January,  1898,  received  the 
unanimous  nomination  of  the  Republican  caucus  for  Journal  Clerk  of  the 
Senate,  being  defeated,  however,  with  the  rest  of  the  nominees,  by  one 
vote,  one  of  the  Republican  Senators  combining  with  the  Democrats  on 
account  of  his  opposition  to  Senator  Hanna. 

"  In  February  I  was  appointed  as  an  Examiner  in  the  War  Depart- 
ment, and  have  since  been  employed  in  examining  the  accounts  of  the 
officers  of  the  Signal  Corps  at  the  different  posts.  I  expect,  however,  to 
be  in  Columbus  with  the  State  Committee  very  shortly. 

"  If  you  address  me  at  Eaton  I  will  get  any  letter  in  a  short  time,  and 
you  will  not  have  to  wait  as  long  for  an  answer  as  you  have  this  time." 

What  "  Mose  "  Rand  has  to  say  for  himself 
Rand,  Edwin  W,  follows : 

"I  apologize  for  not  having  answered  your 
pamphlet  before,  but  it  has  been  almost  impossible  for  me  to  do  so,  as  I 
have  never  been  so  busy  in  my  life  ;  and  really  there  is  nothing  for  me 
to  say  about  myself.  I  am  living  at  20  Alexander  Street,  Princeton, 
New  Jersey.  Princeton  University  Academy,  of  which  I  am  the  prin- 
cipal, is  now  five  years  old,  and  is  situated  at  14  Edwards  Place.  I  have 
done  nothing  but  teach  the  last  four  years,  except  that  in  the  summer 
of  1896  I  took  a  flying  trip  to  Europe.     I  am  very  fond  of  my  work,  and 


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I  believe  it  will  be  the  business  of  my  life.  As  I  say  to  my  friends  and 
classmates,  '  I  cannot  complain  about  anything.'  The  above  is  my  whole 
history,  and  you  may  add  what  you  like  to  it." 

It  is  a  pleasure  for  us  to  record  our  knowledge  of  Rand's  unusual 
success  as  a  teacher.  His  Academy  has  been  in  a  most  flourishing  condi- 
tion the  past  year  and  has  bright  promise  for  the  future. 

Remington  says  for  himself: 
Remington,  F.  A.  "  I  hand  you  the  following  summary  of  the, 

to  me,  important  events  of  the  past  five  years. 

"  In  February,  1896,  I  resigned  my  position  with  W.  H.  Beach,  Hol- 
land, Michigan,  and  accepted  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  West  Michigan 
Seating  Company  of  the  same  city.  On  January  6,  1897,  the  birth  of 
our  only  son  took  place.  In  February,  1898,  the  financial  collapse  of  the 
above  company  and  the  return  of  myself  and  family  to  our  old  home  at 
Great  Barrington,  Massachusetts,  where  I  entered  the  office  of  the  Stanley 
Instrument  Company  as  bookkeeper.  This  position  I  still  hold.  On  March 
16,  1898,  the  death  of  our  son  brought  sorrow  to  our  home. 

"  In  conclusion,  it  may  interest  some  of  my  classmates  to  know  that 
the  successive  positions  held  by  me  during  the  past  five  years  have  been 
in  the  line  of  increasing  responsibilities  and  moderate  advancement. 

"  It  has  been  a  source  of  sincere  regret  to  me  that  I  have  been  sepa- 
rated so  widely  from  all  members  of  '89.  During  the  past  five  years  I 
think  I  have  not  met  a  single  classmate.  I  hope  that  the  proposed  club 
house  in  New  York  will  be  a  success  and  that  I  may  occasionally  have 
the  pleasure  of  meeting  '89  men  there  and  renewing  old  friendships." 

Here  is  a  letter  which  we  received  from 
RiCKETTS,  Basil  N.  the  indefatigable  Phil  Rollins  in  response  to  our 

inquiries  concerning  some  delinquent  correspon- 
dents.    It  contains  all  we  know  about  Ricketts. 

"  I  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  list  of  dead  bodies  and  shall  do 
my  best  to  revive  some  of  them. 

' '  In  the  event  that  we  are  not  able  to  get  direct  word  from  Ricketts, 
it  is  safe  for  you  to  take  the  following  scant  statement  as  so  nearly  correct 
as  to  warrant  its  being  published  in  the  Record. 

"  Ricketts  left  San  Francisco  shortly  after  the  publication  of  the  last 
Record  and  went  to  the  Transvaal  in  South  Africa.  From  there  he  shipped 


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before  the  mast  and  came  direct  to  New  York.  After  staying  a  while  in 
New  York,  he  went  to  Colorado  and  was  employed  in  one  of  the  many 
productive  mines  owned  by  the  Rev.  Bum  Brownlee.  Immediately  on 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Spanish  War,  Ricketts  enlisted  in  Roosevelt's 
Rough  Riders  and  went  with  that  regiment  to  Cuba.  He  was  promoted 
to  a  sergeantship  in  Troop  K,  was  wounded  in  the  first  day's  fight,  and  was 
brought  back  to  one  of  the  Southern  hospitals.  Upon  his  recovery,  he 
returned  to  Santiago,  where  he  found  service  for  a  while  under  General 
"Wood.  For  some  reason  which  I  do  not  know  he  returned  within  the 
last  few  weeks  to  New  York  City,  and  here  he  is.  He  is  unmarried  and 
not  engaged." 

Ricketts'  supposed  address  is  251  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

This  comes  to  hand  from  Robbins  : 
ROBBINS,  Edmund  Y.  "  I  was  so  slow  in  responding  to  your  invita- 

tion to  contribute  to  the  Sexennial  Record 
that  I  barely  secured  a  place  on  the  last  page  of  the  Appendix.  I  am 
going  to  try  to  '  make  a  place  '  in  the  alphabet  this  time.  The  most  note- 
worthy and  important  thing  that  I  have  done  since  the  Sexennial  is  to 
become  engaged  to  Miss  Lena  Place  Hay  ward  of  New  York  City.  That 
I  am  taking  a  happy  and  cheerful  view  of  life,  goes  without  saying.  If 
the  Record  was  not  such  a  staid  and  solemn  publication  I  should  expect 
it  to  congratulate  me. 

"  I  have  not  changed  my  habitat  since  the  last  Record  appeared,  and 
I  expect  every  member  of  the  Class  to  visit  me  at  6  South  Dod  when  they 
come  to  Princeton  for  the  Reunion.  As  to  honors  and  emoluments,  most 
of  them  have  failed  to  pass  my  way.  I  was  advanced  in  March,  1897, 
from  the  position  of  Instructor  to  that  of  Assistant  Professor  of  Greek, 
which  is  the  most  substantial  progress  I  have  to  record.  I  have  published 
but  one  booklet,  a  translation  of  Brugmann's  Nature  and  Origin  of  the 
Noun  Genders,  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  1897.  Aside  from  this  an  occa- 
sional review.  As  I  am  under  contract  with  a  publisher  to  make  a 
couple  of  text-books — one  of  which  must  be  finished  next  winter — I  am 
liable  to  do  little  else  in  the  near  future. 

"  I  like  the  life  in  Princeton  just  as  well  as  when  we  were  under- 
graduates together.  It  is  rendered  very  pleasant,  too,  by  the  fact  that  so 
many  '89  men  come  back  from  time  to  time.  Brooks,  Neher,  Warren, 
Torrey  and  myself  make  up  the  '89  colony  in  the  College,  and  Rand  has 


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a  thrfving  school  in  the  town  ;  and  besides  yourself,  most  esteemed  editor, 
Bovaird,  Brownlee,  Cook,  George,  who  is  one  of  the  pillars  of  the  Law- 
renceville  School  ;  Gulick,  Hunter,  Katzenbach,  Al  and  Dave  McCord, 
Paxton,  Rollins,  Sailer,  Speer,  Taylor,  Jim  Thorpe,  have  all  visited  us 
more  than  once.  Our  lamented  Edwards,  and  Rollins,  and  Sailer  have 
enrolled  themselves  among  the  benefactors  of  the  institution,  and  have 
made  those  of  us  who  are  here  even  more  proud  of  the  loyalty  of  '89.  I 
believe,  Lewis,  I  have  answered  most  of  your  questions  in  the  above." 

Roe   is   simply  incorrigible.     Circulars,   per- 
ROE,  Thomas  M.  sonal  letters  and  telegrams  galore  have  failed  to 

call  forth  any  response  from  him.  That  he  is  in 
Reading,  Pennsylvania,  and  can  be  reached  through  the  addresses  which 
are  given  in  the  directory  we  know,  for  he  yielded  to  the  seductive  in- 
fluences of  Rollins  to  the  extent  of  signing  his  name  on  the  back  of  a  pos- 
tal card  sent  out  by  Phil.  All  the  information  we  thus  gained,  however, 
was  that  he  did  "  not  expect  to  attend  either  Dinner  or  Reunion,"  and  that 
he  was  still  able  to  write  his  own  name.  Brace  up  Roe,  and  be  civil 
enough  to  reply  to  the  courteous  correspondents  among  your  classmates. 

This  was  the  first  response  to  reach  the 
Rollins,  Philip  Ashton  compiler  of  the  Record  : 

"  In  strict  compliance  with  your  circu- 
lar which  asks  for  a  detailed  statement  of  my  doings  since  June,  1895,  and 
of  my  expectations  for  the  future,  I  advise  my  eager  and  inquisitive  class- 
mates that  I  have  eaten  4,095  meals,  have  gone  to  bed  1,364  times,  and 
expect  to  die  still  proud  of  Princeton. 

"  Withal,  I  have  told  a  few  axiomatic  tales  of  hunting  experiences, 
and  asked  a  question  here  and  there. 

"  My  house  address,  205  West  Fifty -seventh  Street,  New  York  City, 
has  remained  unchanged  since  the  publication  of  the  Sexennial  Record. 

"  My  uncle's  death  in  August,  1897,  dissolved  the  law  firm  with 
which  I  had  been  associated,  and  my  cousin  and  I  then  formed  a  law 
partnership  under  the  bi-visualname  of  Rollins  &  Rollins,  which  has  since 
continued  in  the  old  office  at  32  Nassau  Street,  New  York  City. 

"  I  have  made  but  one  pilgrimage  to  my  former  western  hunting 
grounds  ;  and,  except  for  this  and  a  short  trip  to  Europe,  have  stuck  close 
to  my  office. 


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"  Lately  I  have  been  somewhat  active  in  politics  ;  but,  whether  from 
the  altruism  of  my  motives,  the  weakness  of  my  pull,  the  feebleness  of  my 
push,  or  the  wisdom  of  my  fellow  suflragists,  I  have  never  been  a  candi- 
date for  public  oflBce.  More  directly  to  your  question,  I  have  never 
'  filled  '  any  oflScial  position,  though  I  have  rattled  around  on  a  number 
of  party  committees. 

"  Together  with  a  lot  of  other  know-nothings  from  '89  I  was  given  an 
A.  M.  by  Princeton  under  the  old  rule,  which  demanded  from  the  candi- 
date for  the  degree  only  willingness  to  accept  and  a  pleasant  smile. 

"  My  sole  invention  is  unpatented,  but  useful  and  infallible.  When 
bored  by  a  talkative  friend  at  the  other  end  of  your  telephone  line,  place 
your  ear  piece  directly  in  front  of  the  transmitter.  The  friend  hears  him- 
self, and  rings  off  forever. 

"  My  only  accurate  information  about  classmates  concerns  the 
Sproulls.  They  procured  the  annexation  of  Brooklyn  so  that  they  might 
hail  from  New  York." 

"The  Class  is  under  the  greatest  obligations  to  Kollins  for  his  en- 
deavors to  make  the  Decennial  Reunion  what  it  turned  out  to  be,  a  great 
success.  Almost  all  of  the  "booming  "  of  said  festive  occasion  was  done 
by  him,  as  well  as  more  than  his  share  of  the  work  involved  in  the 
making  of  the  preliminary  arrangements. 

In  fact,  to  quote  his  own  words,  he  did  everything  that  he  could  to 
so  plan  the  Reunion  "  that  it  might  not  by  leaning  to  over-piety,  insin- 
cerely attract  the  pious  at  the  expense  of  the  wicked,  nor  by  suggestions 
of  infinite  wickedness  repel  Dr.  Tanner  and  bring  to  the  Reunion  only 
those  who  ought  to  be  convicts." 

In  the  preparation  of  the  Record  he  has  been  of  the  greatest  assistance 
to  your  Secretary.  He  has  called  into  our  service  the  whole  Post  Office 
Department  at  Washington,  the  chiefs  of  police  in  all  the  leading  cities, 
Pinkerton's  Detective  Agency,  and  every  other  known  medium  of  com- 
munication, in  his  endeavor  to  discover  the  whereabouts  of  some  of  our 
silent  friends.  That  he  has  put  your  Secretary  into  correspondence  with 
several  is  his  reward.  That  he  has  failed  to  find  them  all  is  his  regret.  He 
has  our  hearty  thanks  for  his  cordial  co-operation. 

Thus  saith  Sinbad  the  Sailor  : 
Sailer,  T.  H.  P.  "  I  have  reviewed  in  my  mind  the  past  four 

years  with  care,  in  the  hope  of  recalling  some- 
thing spectacular  for  the  Record,  but  in  vain.     I  have  shot  no  bears, 


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scalped  no  Indians,  have  been  unable  to  lay  my  hands  on  any  public 
funds,  and  have  not  even  written  any  books  or  articles. 

"  In  the  fall  of  1895  I  settled  down  in  West  Philadelphia,  where  I 
have  been  since,  teaching  Hebrew  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
For  the  past  two  years  I  have  also  had  an  elective  in  New  Testament  In- 
troduction, which  is  carefully  modelled  after  the  courses  in  Bible  we  used 
to  have — nit !  I  cheerfully  testify  to  all  my  pupils  that  not  even  the  ad- 
vantages of  my  instruction  can  compensate  them  for  what  they  have 
missed  in  not  going  to  Princeton.  Some  of  my  pleasantest  relations  are 
with  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  the  University,  where  I 
lead  classes  in  Bible  Study  and  in  Foreign  Missions.  For  the  third  year  I  am 
chairman  of  the  Missionary  Committee  of  the  Philadelphia  Christian 
Endeavor  Union,  a  position  which  absorbs  considerable  time. 

"  I  attended  the  Sesquicentennial  from  scratch  to  finish,  and  manage 
to  be  in  town  a  few  times  every  year.  I  suppose  there  are  few  who  will 
not  agree  with  me  that  one  does  not  find  in  after  life  such  friendships  as 
we  found  when  we  lived  underneath  the  Orange  and  the  Black.  It  is  one 
of  my  great  regrets  that  I  see  so  little  of  the  men  of  '89." 

As  was  reported  in  the  last  Kecord,  Sailer  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Jackson  Clothier  at  Wynnewood,  Pennsylvania,  on  April  30,  1895. 
They  now  have  two  children — Josephine,  born  June  17,  1896;  and  Kan- 
dolph  Clothier,  born  August  24,  1898.  Sailer  received  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Philosophy,  upon  examination,  from  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  June,  1895. 

Billy    Scofield    has   but    little    to    say 
ScoFiELD,  William  H.  for  himself.     He  sums  it  all  up  in  this  brief 

note. 
"  Keplying  to  your  letter  of  inquiry,  I  can  only  say  that  little  has 
occurred  in  my  life  since  June,  1895,  save  what  may  be  fully  described 
in  answer  to  your  list  of  questions.  Shortly  after  the  time  of  the  Sex- 
ennial I  became  interested  in  business  with  '  Connie,'  and  have  been  hard 
at  work  ever  since.  The  answers  to  your  questions  are  as  follows  :  My 
home  address  is  not  settled  at  present.  The  only  address  I  could  give 
you  would  be  a  hotel  address,  which  will  be  changed  before  summer.  I 
am  in  business  at  9  West  30th  Street,  New  York  City,  with  the  Conover 
Fireplace  Manufacturing  Company.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Belle  Brad- 
ley, on  May  27,  1897,  at  Manchester,  Iowa. 


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"  The  only  position  of  honor  which  I  hold  is  that  of  non-commissioned 
officer  in  the  Seventh  Kegiment,  National  Guard,  of  the  State  of  New 
York.  I  have  no  information  to  give  you  about  classmates  except  con- 
cerning the  men  who  are  located  in  or  near  New  York  City,  and  conse- 
quently doubtless  already  known  to  you.  My  best  wishes  for  your 
success  in  the  work  of  the  Decennial  Kecord. " 

A  most  readable  response  from  Billy  Segur 
Segur,  Willard  B.  will  be  found  below.     Writing  from  Enfield, 

Massachusetts,  he  says  : 

"  On  account  of  my  change  in  address,  and  failure  to  notify  you  of 
the  same,  the  request  to  give  you  a  little  account  of  myself  and  doings 
came  very  late.  The  Decennial  Keunion  of  the  Class  of  Eighty-nine  ! 
How  very  short  and  how  very  long  the  period  since  graduation  seems. 

"As  mentioned  in  a  previous  report,  I  entered  Dartmouth  Medical 
College  the  month  after  leaving  Princeton,  taking  the  full  course,  and 
receiving  my  degree  in  1892,  with  the  honor  at  graduation  of  Class 
Orator.  During  my  course  1  was  a  member  of  the  college  football  team, 
which  won  the  championship  of  the  Northeastern  College  League,  filling 
thepositionof  tackle  one  season  and  that  of  centre  the  next.  I  also  played 
first  base  and  captained  the  Dartmouth  College  Ball  Team,  one  of  the  strong- 
est in  the  State,  while  as  an  extra  I  was  with  the  College  Glee  Club,  and 
leader  of  it  one  year. 

"  Immediately  after  leaving  Dartmouth  I  received  the  appointment 
of  House  Officer  at  St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital  in  Boston  for  one  year,  fol- 
lowed by  the  position  of  Resident  Surgeon  at  the  Boston  Emergency  Hos- 
pital, where  I  remained  two  and  a  half  years.  It  was  during  the  latter 
part  of  this  time  that  I  developed  a  serious  heart  trouble,  which  reached 
the  climax  and  terminated  by  crisis  in  my  marriage  to  Mary  Theresa 
Baker  of  Boston,  at  Pittsfield,  Vermont,  on  April  13,  1895. 

"  Since  that  time  there  has  been  no  return  of  the  trouble,  and  being 
bound  by  the  Hippocratic  oath  to  conceal  nothing  of  benefit  to  mankind, 
I  would  recommend  the  same  treatment  to  those  suflTering  with  that  par- 
ticular cardiac  lesion.  After  passing  the  following  summer  in  Vermont, 
I  came  to  this  place  in  the  autumn  of  1895,  and  since  then  have  been 
engaged  in  a  large  and  lucrative  (?)  private  practice. 

"  Very  few  Princeton  fellows  have  I  seen  in  recent  years.  Joyce  '87 
was  at  Dartmouth  with  me,  and  I  have  seen  Halstead — who  as  editor  in 


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Springfield  has  been  doing  good  work — a  couple  of  times,  and  Emans, 
once  in  Boston  and  once  in  New  York. 

"  A  country  practice,  with  patients  scattered  and  many  a  mile  to 
ride,  does  not  allow  frequent  holidays,  and  instead  of  being  with  the  boys 
at  Keunions,  I  have  a  thousand  times,  either  on  a  hot  drive  of  a  summer 
day  or  during  the  smoke  of  a  quiet  pipe  before  a  roaring  fireplace  in  mid- 
winter, revived  those  days  from  1885  to  1889,  till  brought  back  to  earth 
and  sense  by  a  passing  team  or  a  violent  ring  of  the  door-bell,  followed  by 
the  request  to  drive  several  miles  to  see  a  baby  that  had  been  filled  up 
with  New  England  baked  beans  for  supper  and  was  suffering  for  parental 
imprudence. 

"  Speaking  of  babies  reminds  me  that  my  statistics  in  that  direction 
are  as  easily  written  as  the  famous  chapter  on  the  snakes  of  Ireland — we 
have  none.  But  we  have  an  adopted  boy  whom  they  try  to  flatter  by 
telling  him  that  he  looks  just  like  me,  and  who  is  a  true  Princeton  enthus- 
iast. As  you  would  say,  '  deo  volente,'  I  hope  to  see  you  all  again  at  the 
KeunioD  ;  and  whether  it  is  ten  years  or  a  hundred  years,  there  will 
always  be  the  same  feeling  in  my  heart  for  the  boys  of  the  Class  of 
Eighty-nine." 

We  are  sorry  to  say  that  Billy  Segur  was  unable  to  visit  Princeton  at 
the  time  of  the  Keunion.  Success  to  you,  Billy,  and  see  to  it  that  we  see 
you  in  1904. 

Writing  from  his  oflice  at  188  South 
Shepherd,  Irenaeus  M.  Broad  Street,  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  Shep- 

herd says  for  himself : 
' '  Everything  comes  to  him  who  waits,  but  as  I  have  been  disap- 
pointed in  not  receiving  the  would-be  medal  suggested  in  the  Sexennial 
Record,  I  will  likewise  disappoint  you,  in  that  I  have  still  failed  to  fill 
the  position  to  which  you  kindly  hinted  I  should  aspire,  '  that  of  the 
married  man, '  and  unless  I  become  connected,  either  professionally  or 
otherwise,  with  some  matrimonial  agency,  my  future  as  to  question  four 
of  your  circular  will  be  gloomy  ;  in  fact,  fate  has  so  decreed.  As  to  ques- 
tion seven,  owing  to  my  political  faith  I  relinquished  the  position  of 
Medical  Inspector  of  the  Board  of  Health,  but  in  order  to  keep  my  record 
good,  the  one  thrust  upon  me  by  you,  I  was  appointed  Visiting  Physician 
to  St.  Francis'  Hospital  in  Februarj',  1899.  This  slight  change  makes  my 
biography  corrected  and  completed." 


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In  the  above  letter  Shepherd  makes  reference  to  the  fact  that  in  the 
Sexennial  Record  we  remarked  we  felt  inclined  to  give  him  "  the  medal 
for  holding  more  positions  and  being  a  member  of  more  societies  than  any 
other  member  of  the  Class."  This  medal,  as  he  says,  we  failed  to  for- 
ward to  him.  We  would  assure  him,  however,  that  we  will  furnish  him 
with  the  same  as  soon  as  the  funds  in  the  Class  Treasury  will  warrant  the 
necessary  outlay.  Nevertheless,  we  must  confess  that  the  outlook  for  such 
a  blissful  state  of  affairs  financially  is  not  at  present  very  bright. 

"  Doc. "  Shrady  is  brevity  itself  in  his  reply 
Shrady,  John  Eliot  to   our   communications.     His    letter   consists 

principally  in  apologies  for  having  compelled 
us  to  dun  him  for  personal  information.  And  then,  having  thus  eased 
his  conscience,  he  fails  to  furnish  us  with  more  than  these  few  facts  con- 
cerning himself — that  he  is  a  physician  ;  that  he  has  his  office  at  140  West 
126th  Street,  New  York  City ;  and  that  he  is  still  unmarried  and  unen- 
gaged. At  the  time  of  the  publication  of  the  last  Record  Shrady  was 
travelling  abroad.  We  had  hoped,  therefore,  that  he  would  draw  upon 
the  wealth  of  the  past  to  supply  the  poverty  of  the  present,  so  far  as  inter- 
esting experiences  are  concerned.  But  we  hoped  in  vain.  This  we  know, 
however,  that  though  Shrady 's  letter  to  us  be  short,  his  loyalty  to  the 
Class  is  great. 

Sill  sums  up  his  recent  history  and  present 
Sill,  Henry  D.  situation  after  this  fashion  : 

"  I  am  still  here  in  Cooperstown,  my  birth- 
place, a  dear  old  historic  place.  It  is,  however,  rather  far  distant  from 
most  of  the  homes  of  my  classmates.  Once  in  a  while  I  hear  of  some 
classmate,  or  get  a  nice  square  envelope  containing  the  news  that  some 
classmate  is  soon  to  be  married.  I  have  seen  articles  written  by  '89  men 
in  a  certain  magazine,  and  actually  saw  the  picture  of  one  '89  man  in  a 
dailj^  New  York  paper.  As  I  am  still  unmarried  my  home  is  with  my 
sister  and  an  aunt. 

"Since  our  last  Reunion  I  have  been  working,  as  before,  in  the 
medical  profession.  Of  late,  however,  I  have  devoted  my  practice  prin- 
cipally to  general  office  work  and  surgery,  because  I  found  it  necessary  to 
give  up  part  of  my  work  on  account  of  ill-health.  About  two  years  ago 
a  small  but  very  complete  hospital  was  opened  here,  and  since  then  I 


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have  taken  great  interest  in  this  institution,  both  in  its  equipment  and  in 
its  work. 

"  I  have  also  been  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in 
our  village,  and  also  in  the  work  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
here,  and  have  found,  with  all  my  duties,  my  time  pretty  fully  occupied. 

"  My  prayer  is  that  every  man  of  old  '89  may  be  faithful  in  the 
work  for  mankind,  to  which  God  has  called  him." 

Sill  has  sent  us  this  list  of  the  offices  which  he  holds.  We  insert  it 
because  of  the  additional  light  which  it  throws  upon  his  varied  and  most 
useful  life  : 

"  Member  of  the  Vestry  of  Christ  Church,  Cooperstown,  New  York, 
since  April  4,  1899;  President  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, Cooperstown,  New  York,  since  October  9,  1894  ;  member  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Second  National  Bank,  Cooperstown,  New 
York,  since  April  30,  1895;  member  of  the  Board  of  Physicians  of 
Thanksgiving  Hospital,  Cooperstown,  New  York,  since  October  1,  1896." 

Sill  fully  expected  to  be  present  at  the  Decennial  Reunion.  At  the 
last  moment,  however,  he  was  compelled  to  forego  this  pleasure  and  send 
us  this  note  of  explanation  and  greeting  : 

"  As  I  have  a  patient  critically  ill,  I  will  be  unable  to  attend  the 
Reunion.  I  would  be  very  glad  if  you  would  say  to  old  '89  that  I  send 
to  its  members  a  hearty  greeting,  although  I  cannot  be  with  them." 

"  Pete  "  Smith  promptly  provided  us  with 
Smith,  J.  Condit  this  outline  of  his  recent  doings  : 

"  Your  circular  is  received,  and  I  take  great 
pleasure  in  replying  to  it.  Letters  will  always  reach  me  addressed  to 
Troy  Hills,  New  Jersey.  As  I  move  about  so  much  I  cannot  give  you 
any  permanent  business  address.  I  am  not  engaged  or  married,  as  I  have 
not  found  a  girl  with  good  enough  taste  to  fall  in  love  with  me. 

"  Since  writing  you  for  the  last  Record  I  have  spent  about  three  and 
one-half  years  in  Chicago  with  a  railway  specialty  firm.  Last  June  I 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  Light  Battery  A,  Missouri  Light  Artillery,  and 
was  with  it  for  some  time  at  Chickamauga  and  in  Porto  Rico  under  Gen- 
eral Brooks.  When  the  protocol  was  signed  we  were  sent  home.  I  was 
mustered  out  on  November  30,  1898,  and  am  now  in  the  brick  business. 

"  I  met  a  number  of  Princeton  men  while  in  the  service,  and  we  all 
agreed  our  college  training  was  just  the  thing  to  help  us  in  our  duties  as 
scullions  and  hostlers." 


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As  we  bow  in  Lew  Smith  we  are  strongly 
SmitHi  Lewis  M.  tempted  to  enter  upon  a  dissertation  concerning  the 

conquest  of  man  by  the  charms  of  woman.  But  as 
he  now  allows  his  past  loss  and  present  gain,  we  will  do  no  more  than  to 
refer  the  Class  to  what  he  said  in  the  Sexennial  Kecord  upon  the  subject 
of  matrimony,  and  this,  not  by  way  of  reminding  him  of  his  rashness,  for 
he  has  repented  thereof,  but  that  we  may  warn  others  against  revealing 
prematurely  to  us  what  the  future  holds  in  store  for  them.  One  does  not 
need  to  be  a  prophet,  he  needs  only  to  be  a  Class  Secretary,  to  know  that 
when  a  man  "  has  decided  to  remain  in  the  state  of  single  blessedness  for 
all  time,  the  only  decided  thing  about  his  state  is  its  decided  indecision. 
But  we  give  way  to  Lew,  who  writes  us  from  his  home  in  Dunmore, 
Pennsylvania,  as  follows  : 

"  Your  circular  letter  in  regard  to  information  for  the  Class  Record 
is  received,  and  I  hasten  to  comply  with  your  wish  for  an  early  answer. 

"  Since  the  last  Record  I  have  done  very  little  in  the  way  of  advance- 
ment so  far  as  position  and  salary  are  concerned,  as  I  am  still  connected 
with  the  Erie  and  Wyoming  Valley  Railroad  as  its  Assistant  Engineer. 

"  The  most  important  event  of  my  life  during  the  past  four  years 
happened  about  half-past  seven  o'clock  on  the  night  of  October  7,  1897, 
when  Miss  Ellen  Ruth  Gibbons  of  Kirksville,  Missouri,  became  my  wife. 
Rev.  William  H.  Gibbons,  our  pastor,  oflBciated,  and  as  the  bride  was  his 
sister,  the  wedding  fee  has  become  a  souvenir  of  the  occasion." 

"  I  desire  to  withdraw  some  remarks,  or  rather  make  a  supplementary 
statement  to  what  I  said  in  the  last  Record.  I  would  say  to  the  boys  who 
are  still  unmarried  that  a  bachelor's  life  is  all  right  enough  when  you  do 
not  know  any  better,  but  if  you  want  to  get  the  largest  degree  of  happi- 
ness life  has  in  store  for  you,  you  had  better  hurry  up  and  get  it." 

All  we  have  to  add  is  a  loud  Amen  ! 

From  the   study  of  "  The   Chapel  of  the 
Smith,  William  W.  Heavenly  Rest,"  116  East  Forty-seventh  Street, 

New  York  City,  Dr.  Tanner  sends  us  this  char- 
acteristic letter : 

"  For  a  long  time  I  have  carried  your  notices  around  in  my  pocket 
waiting  for  a  consecutive  half  hour  in  which  I  might  sit  down  at  the 
machine  and  tell  you  what  I  have  been  doing.  But  if  you  have  received 
the  monthly  church  paper  which  I  edit  and  have  sent  you  each  month 


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for  the  past  two  years,  you  will  know  more  than  I  can  possibly  find  the 
time  to  write  of  now.  I  never  was  so  rushed  in  my  life,  and  you  know  I 
always  had  a  bad  habit  of  having  about  twenty  irons  in  the  fire  at  once. 

"  The  fact  is,  that  I  have  here  about  sixteen  hundred  souls  to  care 
for,  chiefly  Germans  and  Bohemians,  with  over  one  hundred  Chinese  in 
the  school,  and  a  sprinkling  of  other  nationalities.  There  are  from  'ght 
to  nine  hundred  in  the  Sunday  School,  with  over  six  hundred  comn  ai- 
eants.  I  have  had  but  six  days  out  of  the  city  in  four  years,  summer  or 
winter,  and  not  a  free  evening  from  October  to  May.  This  is  not  the 
fault  of  the  rector  of  the  church,  as  I  am  given  a  vacation,  but  sickness, 
etc.,  in  the  families  under  my  care  has  prevented  my  taking  a  rest. 

"Up  to  June,  1895,  I  have  given  you  the  details  of  my  life.  I 
then  had  graduated  in  medicine  at  the  Physicians  and  Surgeons  De- 
partment of  Columbia,  passed  the  State  Kegents'  Examination,  and 
had  been  admitted  to  practice  as  a  regular  physician  in  the  state,  county 
and  city.  I  have  kept  the  same  church  connections,  and  will  have  worked 
with  the  Church  of  the  Heavenly  Kest  for  twelve  years  next  fall. 

"  After  completing  my  medical  studies  I  entered  the  New  York 
Dental  College  for  practical  work  in  Dentistry  in  the  mornings,  (my  M.  D. 
permitted  Dental  practice),  and  the  Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital, 
and  the  DeMilt  Dispensary  for  Eye  Specialization  in  the  afternoons. 

"  In  1896  I  assumed  entire  charge,  as  Yicar  under  Dr.  Morgan,  of 
the  'Chapel  of  the  Heavenly  Rest.'  I  was  only  assisting  the  Vicar  be- 
fore. I  live  in  the  Chapel  flat,  over  the  Parish  House,  with  my  father 
and  mother.  I  am  not  married,  nor  am  I  engaged,  nor  do  I  expect  to  be. 
I  have  not  given  up  the  hope  of  going  to  China,  although  I  may  have  to 
wait  here  a  year  or  so  yet.  My  father's  health  is  very  poor  indeed,  and 
I  dare  not  take  him,  nor  can  I  leave  him.  My  mother  is  more  than  ready 
to  accompany  me  to  the  foreign  field  as  soon  as  the  time  arrives  when  I 
can  conscientiously  go. 

"The  only  degrees  I  have  received  you  know;  B.  A.,  M.  A., 
Rev.,  and  M.  D.  The  only  writing  I  have  done  worth  speaking 
of,  has  been  in  connection  with  the  editorship  of  our  parish  paper, 
articles  in  the  '  Churchman,'  etc.,  on  '  The  Solution  of  Tenement  House 
Problems,'  and  a  little  thirty-six-page  paper  booklet  on  '  Confirmation.' 
I  am  a  member  of  the  '  Sunday  School  Commission  '  for  the  Diocese  of 
New  York,  to  compile  lessons,  systems,  grading  forms,  etc.,  for  all  the 
Sunday  Schools  of  this  diocese.     It  has  not  done  much  yet,  however.    My 


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daily  life  and  work  is  simply  that  of  the  routine  of  a  City  Mission  Chapel, 
with  no  social  life  among  equals,  no  change,  and  no  incidents  ;  calling, 
funerals,  baptisms  and  services  making  up  every  week's  program. 

"  I  will  not  be  able  to  go  to  Princeton  this  year  unless  I  neglect  my  work, 
which  I  will  never  do  for  anything,  no  matter  how  I  would  wish  it.  I  have 
no  one  to  leave  in  my  stead,  and  I  could  not  remain  absent  a  single  day. 
Over  two  thousand  six  hundred  individuals  come  to  see  me  each  year; 
and  meetings,  classes  for  educational  or  missionary  work  of  some  kind  oc- 
cupy my  time  every  night.  Remember  me  to  my  dear  classmates.  I 
have  seen  none  of  them,  not  five  persons  in  as  many  years,  as  I  can  visit 
no  locality  where  I  would  meet  them." 

Speer  has  furnished  us  with  a  most  in- 
Speer,  Robert  Elliot  teresting  account  of  his  doings  since  June, 

1895.  Those  of  us  who  are  familiar  with  his 
career  will  read  much  between  the  lines  and  thus  learn  much  concerning 
his  life  and  labors  which  he  might  have  told  us,  but  which,  with  his  usual 
modesty,  he  has  left  unsaid. 

"  I  received  some  time  ago  a  communication  from  a  Committee  en- 
titling itself  '  The  Deceminal  Committee  of  the  Class  of  1889.'  Inasmuch 
as  in  the  communication  I  received  the  committee  uses  this  same  title  as 
descriptive  of  itself,  the  Reunion  and  the  Anniversary,  I  believe  that  it 
was  intentional.  I  do  not  know  what  the  thing  is  that  calls  itself  '  Decem- 
inal,' nor  whether  it  is  fit  to  be  trusted  with  any  money  or  not.  You  are  a 
reputable  character,  however, and  I  am  glad  to  enclose  herewith  my  check. 
"And  now,  with  reference  to  your  inquiries  as  Class  Secretary,  I  am 
sorry  I  do  not  have  much  to  report.  I  simply  worked  away  for  a  year 
after  our  Sexennial,  and  then  left  the  country  in  August,  1896,  to  visit 
some  of  the  mission  fields.  Mrs.  Speer  went  with  me,  and  we  crossed 
Europe  to  Warsaw,  and  then  went  down  through  Russia  to  Odessa  on  the 
Black  Sea,  crossing  the  Black  Sea  by  way  of  the  Crimea  to  Batoum,  and 
then  went  up  on  the  Trans-Caucasian  Railway  to  a  little  village  beyond 
Tiflis,  where  we  left  railroads  and  went  by  Russian  stage-road  down  to 
Mt.  Ararat  and  the  Aras  River. 

"  We  spent  five  months  or  so  traveling  around  through  Persia,  where 
we  were  delayed  about  two  months  bej'ond  our  expected  time  by  an  at- 
tack of  typhoid  fever,  which  I  had  at  Hamadan.  There  were  good  medical 
missionaries  there,  who  took  the  best  of  care  of  me,  and  in  January  we 


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were  able  to  go  on  over  the  mountains  to  Bagdad,  which  we  reached  after 
a  horseback  ride  from  the  Aras  Eiver  of  about  eight  hundred  miles  for 
Mrs.  Speer,  and  about  fifteen  hundred  for  me.  From  Bagdad  we  went 
down  the  Tigris  River  to  the  Persian  Gulf,  and  thence  to  Muscat  in 
Arabia,  and  thence  over  to  northwest  India.  In  India  we  went  up  to 
Lahore  in  Punjab,  and  then  came  down  through  the  country  to  Calcutta 
and  crossed  over  to  Rangoon.  Thence  we  went  down  and  along  the 
Malay  Peninsula  to  Singapore  and  up  to  Hongkong.  We  spent  four 
months  traveling  through  China,  from  Hainan  to  Peking,  going  up  to 
the  borders  of  the  Province  of  Hunan  in  the  south.  "When  the  hot 
weather  came  on,  in  the  summer,  we  went  over  to  Japan  for  half  the 
summer,  and  then  Mrs.  Speer  went  back  to  China  while  I  traveled 
through  Korea. 

"  I  spent  a  week  with  Graham  Lee  in  Northern  Korea,  and  we 
walked  down  across  the  country  together  to  Seoul.  Lee  is  doing  splendid 
missionary  work,  and  with  his  mechanical  ability  and  good  practical 
sense  is  accomplishing  wonders  in  the  way  of  house-building  after  the 
improved  Korean  fashion.  The  particular  missionary  work  which  he 
and  his  associates  have  done  was  the  most  remarkable  missionary  work  I 
saw  anywhere.  The  whole  country  seemed  stirred  up  and  the  mission- 
aries had  their  hands  full  simply  looking  after  the  people  who  wanted  to 
accept  Christianity.  We  came  home  across  the  Pacific  in  October,  1897, 
and  I  have  since  that  time  been  working  on  steadily  here  in  connection 
with  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

"  As  for  experiences,  I  could  write  enough  to  fill  the  Decennial 
Record.  Traveling  around  the  country,  speaking  on  missions  and  at 
various  meetings  I  have  run  across  a  good  many  of  the  fellows. 

"  My  home  address  is  Englewood,  New  Jersey.  My  business  address 
156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City.  My  present  occupation,  Secretary  of 
the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  I  was  married  April  20, 
1893,  to  Emma  Doll  Bailey,  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.  I  have  one  child,  a  boy, 
named  Elliott  Speer,  born  November  1,  1898.  I  have  not  filled  any  offi- 
cial positions,  and  I  have  received  no  degrees  or  other  honors. 

"  As  for  books,  pamphlets,  etc.,  for  which  you  ask,  I  have  written 
the  following  at  odd  times  :  '  Missions  and  Politics  in  Asia,'  '  A  Memo- 
rial of  a  True  Life,'  'The  Man  Christ  Jesus,'  'A  Frank  Talk  About 
Gambling  and  Betting,'  'Remember  Jesus  Christ;'  all  published  by 
Revell.     'Studies  in  the  Book  of  Acts'  and  'Studies  in  the  Gospel  of 


Ill 


Luke,'  published  by  the  International  Committee  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  '  Things  that  Maiie  a  Man,'  published  by  the 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication.  I  have  written  articles  without 
number  for  the  'Independent,'  the  'Evangelist,'  the  'Missionary  Ke- 
view,'  'Forward,'  'Frank  Leslie's,'  'The  Churchman,'  'The  Sunday 
School  Times,'  and  other  papers. 

"I  have  had  a  very  happy  life  since  leaving  college.  I  have  kept 
up  some  very  good  friendships  in  the  Class  and  have  gained  some  friend- 
ships worth  more  than  much  gold  besides.  I  have  more  work  than  I  can 
do,  and  the  satisfaction  of  believing  that  as  I  grow  able  to  do  more  I 
shall  also  see  more  to  do.  As  I  look  back  ten  years  to  our  college  life,  it 
is  the  capacity  for  work  I  there  gained  that  I  am  most  grateful  for.  I  do 
not  remember  a  single  chemical  formula  except  HjO.  I  do  not  remember  a 
single  law  of  physics.  I  do  not  think  I  can  spot  a  single  set  of  constellations 
except  the  Great  Dipper  and  the  Pleiades.  But  I  did  learn  how  to  work  ; 
and  inasmuch  as  I  have  not  had  to  hunt  around  since  leaving  college  to 
find  some  work  to  do,  I  do  not  know  why  I  should  not  be  quite  contented 
and  look  back  with  equanimity  and  amiability." 

The  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Sproull,  Gormly  J.  Sproull,  Harmer  &  Sproull  thus  writes  us  from 

his  sanctum  in  the  Metropolitan  Building, 
Madison  Square,  New  York  City  : 

"  I  reply  to  your  circular  as  follows  :  My  home  address  is  140  Noble 
Street,  Brooklyn,  but  this  address  will  be  changed  within  a  month.  My 
business  address  is  1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City.  I  am  not  mar- 
ried, therefore  no  '  when  '  and  no  '  where.'  I  am  not  engaged.  I  have 
held  no  official  positions,  received  no  degrees,  written  no  books,  pamph- 
lets or  other  publications,  and  have  made  no  patents  or  processes.  You 
ask  for  information  concerning  classmates  ;  as  a  practicing  lawyer  I  have 
learned  to  say  very  little  about  other  people's  business  outside  of  court. 

"  I  am  sorry  that  my  answers  to  your  questions  must  be  so  short.  I 
have  simply  been  going  along  from  day  to  day  practicing  law.  I  have 
met  with  some  little  success  in  the  trial  of  cases  at  the  bar,  which,  to  a 
considerable  extent,  I  have  made  a  specialty.  A  number  of  things  of 
considerable  interest  have  transpired  in  my  professional  career,  but  they 
are  of  such  a  nature  that  as  an  attorney  I  prefer  to  say  nothing  about 
them. 


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"  If  there  is  anything  more  that  you  want  that  I  can  properly  give 
you,  I  shall  be  only  too  glad  to  accommodate  you,  but  I  really  think 
that  you  have  all  that  I  ought  to  tell.  I  expect  to  attend  the  Decennial, 
barring  accidents." 

Gormly  did  not  show  up  at  the  Reunion.  The  "barring  accident" 
must  have  occurred,  though  we  have  scanned  the  daily  press  in  vain  to 
learn  its  nature. 


Tommy  Sproull,  who  is  associated  with  his 
Sproull,  Thomas  brother  in  the  practice  of  law,  has  sent  us  this 

contribution  to  our  Record.  We  know  that  the 
Class  will  read  it  with  pleasure  and  profit  : 

"  I  am  sorry  to  have  again  made  it  necessary  for  you  to  send  me  a 
second  notice  in  order  to  gather  together  the  few  facts  which  I  can  give 
you  in  reference  to  myself  since  our  Sexennial  Reunion.  Certainly  it  is  not 
from  any  lack  of  interest  on  my  part  in  the  Class  or  the  Class  Record,  but 
from  a  lack  of  anything  that  would  be  of  special  interest  to  my  classmates. 
My  life  is  very  much  like  that  of  any  other  lawyer  in  the  city  of  New 
York,  working  hard  to-day  and  doing  nothing  to-morrow,  with  the  at- 
tendant hopes  and  discouragements  which  naturally  come  to  us  all. 

"  I  frequently  run  across  Bovaird,  sometimes  see  Seofield,  the  Todds 
and  Irons,  and  on  one  or  two  occasions  have  run  up  against  the  McCords, 
Thorpe  and  Conover,  and  much  to  my  surprise  I  ran  across  Terhune  only 
a  day  or  two  ago  on  Eighteenth  Street.  I  used  to  see  Taylor  quite  fre- 
quently, but  since  he  has  gone  over  to  the  majority  he  is  hard  to  find.  I 
hear  occasionally  of  others  of  our  classmates,  and  I  am  happy  to  say  that 
all  of  whom  I  hear  are  doing  well,  and  showing  themselves  a  credit  to  the 
Class. 

"  These  spring  days  bring  back  with  a  sense  of  longing  the  old  days 
that  we  used  to  spend  playing  ball  behind  Edwards,  and  make  me  wish 
that  I  had  more  time  to  devote  to  the  loafing  which  we  used  to  do,  espe- 
cially at  this  season  of  the  year,  at  Princeton. 

"My  home  address  is  140  Noble  Street,  Brooklyn,  my  business  ad- 
dress, 1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City,  and  my  present  occupation  that 
of  a  lawyer.  I  am  not  married,  and  consequently  the  maiden  name  of 
the  lady  is  blank,  and  I  have  not  time  to  devote  to  the  naming  of  an 
unborn  generation.     I  am  not  engaged.     I  have  no  official  position.     De- 


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grees  and  honors  have  not  been  deserved,  and  consequently  not  received. 
I  have  written  no  books  and  made  no  inventions. 

"  I  am  glad  to  see  that  our  Secretary  means  business,  though  I  think 
he  always  did,  and  I  can  only  again  express  my  regret  that  I  have  no 
further  facts  which  would  be  of  interest  to  the  Class,  and  that  my  con- 
science, degenerate  as  it  is,  will  not  permit  me  to  give  fancies  and  dreams 
for  facts.  Let  me  say,  also,  that  though  the  results  may  not  show  it,  I 
have  taken  time  and  trouble  to  give  to  this  matter,  and  at  least  have  tried 
to  be  '  little  more  diffuse.' 

"  I  hope  to  get  down  to  Princeton  for  the  Keunion,  if  only  for  a  short 
time,  for  I  am  anxious  to  see  all  the  fellows  again  ;  and  I  know  of  nothing 
that  will  give  me  more  pleasure  than  to  spend  a  day  or  so  bringing  back 
the  pleasant  recollections  of  the  four  years  that  I  spent  at  college." 

We  regret  that  Tommy  was  unable  to  realize  this  hope,  and  wish 
him  better  success  next  time. 

Stebbins  has  not  seen  fit  to  respond  to 
Stebbins,  F.  Lansing  any  of  our  appeals  for  an  autobiography.    We 

have  had  the  pleasure  of  gazing  upon  his 
signature  which  he  found  time  to  place  upon  a  postal  card  mailed  him  by 
Phil  Kollins.  But  a  careful  study  of  his  chirography  has  told  us  nothing 
save  that  he  was  in  the  land  of  the  living  on  May  29,  1899,  and  that  at 
that  time  he  had  no  intention  of  attending  the  Class  Reunion.  A  tele- 
gram sent  to  him  at  385  Main  street,  Geneva,  New  York,  was  delivered, 
and  as  far  as  we  can  learn  this  is  his  present  address.  Furst  has  informed 
us  that  Stebbins  is  still  practicing  medicine  in  the  above-named  city,  and 
that  he  received  an  invitation  to  his  wedding  some  months  ago.  This  is 
the  sum  and  substance  of  our  information  concernins;  him. 


For  ten  years  we  have  wrestled  with  Sterry 
Sterry,  John  D.  in  the  endeavor  to  wring  from  him  something  of 

general  interest.      At  last  he  has  written   us  and 
as  follows : 

"  I  would  be  indebted  if  you  would  write  me  down  as  '  no  report.'  I 
am  not  in  sympathy  with  this  class-record  business  ;  in  fact,  fail  to  see 
any  sense  in  it.  For  this  reason  I  have  avoided  writing  at  any  time.  I 
trust  you  will  understand  my  view-point." 


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"We  must  confess  our  utter  inability,  either  as  Class  Secretary  or  as 
his  classmate,  to  understand  his  view-point.  We  trust  that  the  lapse  of 
time  will  gradually  bring  him  around  to  our  point  of  view.  And,  in 
this  hope,  we  will  make  bold  to  disregard  his  wish  that  we  should  ignore 
his  existence,  and  will  record  here  for  the  benefit  of  his  classmates  what 
we  have  learned  about  him. 

At  present  he  is  in  business  with  his  father  at  79  Pine  Street,  New 
York  City.  The  firm  name  is  "Weaver  &  Sterry,  Limited,"  and  their 
business  is  the  importation  of  chemicals.  Sterry  is  still  unmarried,  and, 
we  are  informed,  has  abandoned  the  journalistic  career  upon  which  he 
entered  after  leaving  the  Class  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year.  How  we 
obtained  this  information  concerning  him  it  matters  not.  Suflice  it  to 
«ay  that  it  is  reliable. 

Here  is  a  letter  which  came  to  us  with- 
Stevens,  Charles  W.  out  signature.     "We  are  accustomed  to  ignore 

anonymous  communications,  but  we  make 
an  exception  in  this  instance,  as  this  was  written  from  33  "West  Thirty- 
third  Street,  New  York  City,  a  familiar  address.  And  then,  too,  it  has 
a  familiar  ring  about  it.  Incase  "  "Waddy  "  Stevens  denies  its  author- 
ship we  will  tender  our  profound  apologies  for  having  inserted  it  under 
his  name. 

"  I  have  very  little  to  add  to  my  record  since  the  Sexennial.  I  am 
still  plodding  along  in  medicine  at  the  old  stand  but  have  not  succeeded 
in  setting  the  world  on  fire  with  any  great  discovery.  I  continue  to  live 
a  life  of  single  blessedness,  and  have  no  prospect  of  changing  in  this 
regard. 

"  The  only  additional  item  of  interest  I  have  to  communicate  is  that 
during  the  late  unpleasantness  with  Spain  I  got  the  soldiering  fever  and 
last  summer  I  served  in  the  army  for  three  months  as  Acting  Assistant 
Surgeon.  My  fighting  was  not  of  a  very  dangerous  kind,  however,  as  I 
got  no  farther  towards  the  front  than  Staten  Island,  and  our  most  desper- 
ate enemies  were  mosquitoes.  I  was  attached  to  Fort  Wadsworth,  where 
we  had  a  fine  large  field  hospital  with  plenty  of  work  in  caring  for  the 
unfortunates  who  were  sent  north  on  transports.  The  work  was  most 
interesting,  and  I  enjoyed  it  thoroughly,  but  I  am  not  in  a  desperate 
hurry  to  enlist  again." 


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Taylor  has  our  thanks  for  this  valua- 
Taylor,  Duncan  Warren  ble  addition  to  our  store  of  information 

concerning  himself  and  others  as  well : 

"  My  answer  to  your  circular  of  April  first  has  been  delayed,  but  I 
hope  not  long  enough  to  bother  you.  First,  to  answer  your  request  for 
class  statistics. 

"My  home  address  is  510  "West  Seventh  Street,  Plainfield,  New 
Jersey,  and  my  business  address  Colgate  &  Company,  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey.  I  am  chemist  in  the  employ  of  this  firm.  I  was  married  Octo- 
ber 12,  1898,  at  126  East  39th  Street,  New  York,  to  Miss  Alice  Cleveland 
Cady.  I  have  held  no  official  position.  I  fully  appreciate  your  efforts 
to  get  together  a  good  history,  but  I  cannot  help  you  on  questions  eight, 
nine  and  ten. 

"  Since  June,  1895,  my  life  has  been  a  quiet  one,  my  work  here  at 
the  factory  taking  all  my  time.  This  work  has  been  very  interesting. 
Our  laboratory  has  grown  considerably  in  the  last  four  years.  No  great 
discoveries  have  been  made,  but  progress  has  been  made  each  year,  and 
our  knowledge  of  the  business  has  greatly  increased.  As  Neher  and 
Hewitt  are  the  only  ones  in  our  Class  who  would  understand  any  of  the 
details  of  my  work,  there  is  no  need  of  mentioning  them.  But  my  ex- 
perience has  shown  one  thing  very  clearly,  as  I  have  become  acquainted 
with  others  interested  in  chemistry  and  in  science  in  general,  that 
Princeton  as  a  training  school  in  science  is  far  behind  many  other  col- 
leges and  universities  in  this  country.  This  subject  is  of  especial  interest 
to  me  at  this  time,  and  probably  to  each  member  of  the  Class,  as  Neher 
has  just  completed  his  first  year  as  Assistant  Professor  of  Chemistry  at 
Princeton.  I  hope  this  means  that  the  chemical  courses,  at  any  rate, 
will  have  a  thorough  overhauling  and  revision,  and  be  brought  up  to  the 
standard  of  the  best  universities. 

"  Although  living  either  in  or  near  New  York  City  for  the  last  four 
years,  I  have  seen  comparatively  little  of  the  rest  of  our  Class.  Till  last 
fall  we  have  always  had  one  opportunity  a  year  to  get  together,  the  night 
before  the  Yale  football  game,  at  an  informal  dinner.  It  gave  us  an 
opportunity  to  discuss  all  things  relative  to  Princeton  that  I  am  sure  we 
all  enjoyed.  The  meetings  of  the  Princeton  Club  of  New  York,  too, 
help  to  keep  us  in  touch  with  our  old  stamping  ground. 

"  From  1894  until  1898  I  lived  in  New  York.  The  summer  of  1898 
I  spent  in  Englewood,  New  Jersey.     After  being  married  last  fall  we 


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went  to  Plainfield  to  live.  Everywhere  I  go  I  find  Princeton  friends, 
who  always  enjoy  going  over  some  of  our  life  at  college.  I  find  that 
some  of  the  likings  formed  there  stick  for  a  long  while.  Thus  whist  has 
come  to  be  a  favorite  pastime  with  me,  as  much  as  when  Warren,  Brooks, 
Mudge,  Robbins,  Neher  and  I  used  to  play  in  Senior  year. 

"  Some  of  our  classmates  who  live  farthest  away  seem  to  turn  up 
once  in  a  while.  The  Thrapps,  of  course,  appear  several  times  a  year. 
I  did  not  know  just  why  Sam  was  so  much  occupied  last  year  when  he 
was  here  in  the  East.  But  it  was  all  explained  last  winter,  when  I  found 
he  had  just  become  engaged  to  be  married.  I  suppose  the  next  one  we 
will  hear  such  tidings  from  will  be  Jacky  Morris.  I  did  not  think  he  would 
be  beaten  in  this  way  by  Sam  Thorpe. 

"  I  was  very  sorry  last  winter  not  to  be  able  to  be  present  at  David 
Bovaird's  wedding.  I  hear  that  Sam  was  there  and  made  that  fact  known 
very  thoroughly.  David  came  out  to  see  me  a  few  days  ago  and  was 
still  trying  to  efface  some  of  the  marks  on  his  bag,  that  had  been  formed 
by  'stickers,'  which  Sam  had  put  there  months  ago." 

Here  is  another  man  who  has  been  hunted 

Taylor,  Walter  C.  down  by  that  prince  of  detectives,  Phil  Eol- 

lins.     But,  alas,  it  is  one  thing  to  find  a  man 

and  quite  another  to  obtain  a  letter  from  him  for  a  Class  Record.     Hence 

the  brevity  of  this  report. 

All  we  can  tell  the  Class  about  Taylor  may  be  comprised  within  the 
compass  of  a  few  sentences.  He  is  in  the  employ  of  the  Millier  Drug 
Company  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  He  was  married  some  six  years  ago  and 
has  no  children.  He  responded  to  the  Committee's  request  for  informa- 
tion concerning  his  presence  or  absence  at  the  Reunion  by  saying  that  a 
contemplated  trip  to  Europe  would  prevent  his  attendance. 

We  shall  meet  him  at  the  wharf  upon  his  return  to  these  United 
States,  conduct  him  to  the  law  offices  of  Rollins  &  Rollins,  32  Nassau 
Street,  New  York  City,  and  open  up  Phil's  question-box  on  him.  And 
then,  with  the  aid  of  a  stenographer,  we  will  do  the  rest. 

Jack  Terhune  has  a  novel  method  of  meet- 

Terhune,  John  A.  ing    our    demands    for    material.       When    we 

received  his  letter  and  read  its  opening  words, 

our  first  impression  was  that  he  had  sent  us  a  sermon  by  mistake.     How 

scriptural  and  how  oratorical  its  introduction  I 


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"  Oh,  ye  Scribes,  how  long  will  ye  trouble  us  with  your  questions? 
Methinks  I  can  hear  the  answer,  '  Until  all  the  Triennials,  Sexennials, 
Decennials,  Vigintennials,  Trigintennials,  etc.,  are  past.' 

"  Laying  aside  the  modesty  of  an  '  eighty-niner, '  I  will,  at  the  urgent 
request  of  our  Class  Secretary,  say  a  few  things  concerning  myself.  I 
trust  the  printer  of  our  Kecord  has  furnished  himself  with  a  good  stock  of 
'I's,'  that  he  may  not  find  himself  embarrassed,  as  was  the  publisher  of 
the  inaugural  address  of  a  certain  college  president, 

"Very  little  has  occurred  in  my  quiet  life  in  a  country  parish  that 
will  be  of  interest  to  my  classmates.  I  do  not  know  of  any  '  inventions  ' 
or  '  patents  '  to  my  credit,  even  connected  with  any  new  scheme  of  raising 
money  for  missions.  No  books,  pamphlets  or  articles  have  I  written  or 
published,  save  an  occasional  sermon  or  extract  seized  by  a  local  reporter. 

"  Degrees  or  other  honors?  None  to  speak  of.  A.B.,  1889,  Prince- 
ton;  A.M.,  1892,  Princeton.     Only  this  and  nothing  more. 

"  There  is,  however,  some  positive  information  I  can  give  you.  My 
address  is  Hughsonville,  Dutchess  county,  New  York.  My  present  occu- 
pation is  preaching  as  pastor  of  the  Hughsonville  Presbyterian  Church. 

"  I  am  married.  Of  course  I  am — the  oldest  in  matrimony  in  '89. 
I  was  married  to  Miss  Mignonette  Bogert,  at  Westwood,  New  Jersey, 
June  26,  1889.  We  have  one  child,  a  boy,  Maitland  Bogert  Terhune, 
born  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  December  27,  1892. 

"  These  are  the  salient  facts  in  my  life  since  graduation.  I  have  had 
but  one  pastorate  since  leaving  the  Seminary.  It  has  been  a  humble  one, 
but  full  of  encouragement  and  blessing. 

"  I  am  asked  to  tell  something  about  my  classmates,  but  I  believe 
they  can  tell  more  about  themselves.  I  see  some  of  them  occasionally, 
and  occasionally  receive  an  invitation  to  a  wedding. 

"  "While  on  a  trip  to  California  during  the  summer  of  1897,  returning 
by  the  way  of  Minneapolis,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  calling  on  the  Thorpes. 
Not  recognizing  his  classmate,  Sam  would  not  readily  consent  to  a  loan 
of  $5,000,  suggested  by  his  brother.  That  is  the  time  Jim  got  the  joke 
on  Sam,  and  we  all  laughed  together." 

Jim  Thrapp  comes  right  to  the  front  this 
Thorpe,  James  R.  time.     Indeed,  he  elbows  his  way  through  the 

crowd   in   his   intense   eagerness   to  mount  the 
Record  rostrum  and  blow  his  horn.     Here  is  his  blast : 


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"  You  are  the  most  disliked  man  in  the  Class  on  account  of  your 
requests  for  personal  information.  But  as  they  are  not  to  be  evaded,  I 
will  thus  answer  the  questions  of  your  circular : 

"  My  home  address  is  2049  South  Clarkson  Street,  Denver,  Colorado  ; 
and  my  place  of  business  408  Equitable  Building  in  the  same  city.  As 
the  last  Kecord  correctly  stated,  I  was  married  to  Miss  Amelia  Foss  at 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  on  May  3,  1894.  I  am  not  engaged  again. 
I  have  filled  no  positions,  received  no  degrees,  written  no  books,  made  no 
inventions. 

' '  My  college  friends  will  regret  that  their  chance  to  buy  Minneapolis 
investments  through  me  is  gone.  Nothing  is  left  of  my  zeal  in  that  direc- 
tion, excepting  the  essay  on  the  subject  written  for  Dr.  Hunt  in  response 
to  his  instructions  to  select  the  most  familiar  theme.  I  am  now  cultivating 
enthusiasm  for  Kocky  (Mountain)  bonds  and  investments,  with  headquar- 
ters in  Denver,  Colorado,  whither  I  have  come  from  Minneapolis  for  my 
wife's  health. 

' '  Though  1  see  nothing  of  the  sturdy  St.  Paul  attorney  named 
Denegre,  compensation  comes  in  the  way  of  quotations  and  advertising 
matter  from  the  doughty  Colorado  Springs  mining  broker,  Proudfit,  who 
floods  Denver  with  his  business  chances. 

*'  I  hope  the  Decennial  Kecord  will  tell  us  whether  Dune  Taylor  and 
his  Colgate  Company  have  yet  succeeded  in  making  a  shaving  soap  to 
meet  Bovaird's  requirements,  and  which  he  can  tease  into  use  with  any 
satisfaction. 

"  Pershing  '88,  Charlton  '90  and  I  are  to  be  found  in  the  Equitable, 
Denver,  and  I  hope  that  my  '  '89  this  way  '  will  be  heard  by  any  of  our 
Class  who  come  to  Colorado." 


Sam  Thrapp's  first  letter  to  us  failed  to  fill 
Thorpe,  Samuel  S.  the  bill.     That  is  to  say,  it  did  not  do  him  jus- 

tice. His  second  response  is  below.  It  is  a 
decided  improvement  on  its  predecessor,  and,  with  the  editorial  liberties 
we  have  made  bold  to  take  with  it,  will  furnish  the  Class  with  a  glimpse 
of  his  life  and  labors  : 

"I  received  your  circular  of  April  first,  with  the  eleven  questions 
stated  therein,  and  I  immediately  answered  them  the  same  day.  I  have 
received  your  second  letter,  and  this  leads  me  to  think  that  possibly  my 


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first  answer  did  not  reach  you.     I  simply  asked  you  to  fill  it  out,  giving 
me  as  hard  a  write-up  as  I  deserved. 

"  My  home  address  is  82  South  Twelfth  Street,  Minneapolis,  Minne- 
sota. I  am  still  in  the  Keal  Estate,  Loan,  Fire  Insurance  and  Rental 
Business,  with  an  office  at  258  Hennepin  Avenue,  in  the  same  city.  I 
am  happy  to  say  that  I  am  engaged.  The  fortunate  young  lady  is  Miss 
Margaret  Andrus  of  New  York  City,  and  she  is  a  peach. 

"Official  positions  filled?  None;  save  that  I  am  a  trustee  of 
Hamlin  University  and  Superintendent  of  a  Mission  School  in  the  South 
Town.  As  to  degrees,  I  nearly  got  the  degree  of  '  Bachelor  '  of  the  home 
sort.  My  literary  abilities  have  found  exercise  only  in  the  preparation  of 
advertising  matter  for  the  daily  papers. 

"  I  was  the  only  representative  of  the  Class  at  the  wedding  of  our 
Class  President,  and  saw  to  it  that  David's  whiskers  were  neatly  trimmed 
before  he  took  the  young  lady  to  the  altar,  and  that  the  knot  was  tightly 
tied." 

For  further  details  of  his  activity  on  this  occasion,  we  refer  the 
reader  to  David's  letter  and  that  of  Dune  Taylor.  Sam  pathetically 
remarks  at  the  conclusion  of  his  first  letter  to  us  that  he  "  tried  to  repre- 
sent the  Class  as  well  as  he  could."  He  certainly  succeeded  in  giving 
David  and  his  wife  a  rousing  send-off,  and  in  impressing  them  with  an 
abiding  sense  of  the  sincerity  of  his  attentions.  Indeed,  we  are  credibly 
informed  that  tokens  of  his  thoughtfulness  still  remain  with  them,  and 
will  endure  until  leather  turns  to  dust. 

While  Allie  Barr,  alias  the  Rev.  Alfred  H.  Barr,  of  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, was  in  Minneapolis  last  May  as  a  Commissioner  to  the  recent  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  he  sent  us  this  letter.  It  is 
self-explanatory : 

"  This  line  has  to  do  with  a  little  '89  Reunion  out  here  gotten  up  by 
Providence  and  the  Thorpes — I  mean  without  previous  plan  or  knowledge. 
'  Bob  '  Speer,  '  Berry  Wall  '  McCord,  Jim  Thorpe,  who  now  lives  in 
Denver,  Sam  Thorpe,  who  lives  in  New  York  half  his  time,  and  in 
matrimonial  expectations  the  other  half,  arrived  here  together  with  your 
servant  within  a  few  hours  of  each  other.  The  Thorpes  promptly  picked 
Jim  Denegre  out  of  the  rival  suburb,  gathered  the  clans,  and  celebrated 
the  occasion. 

"  Now,  it  is  worth  mentioning  in  this  connection  that  the  name  of 
Thorpe  stares  on  the  innocent  wanderer  upon  the  streets  of  Minneapolis, 


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at  every  turn.  He  goes  down  one  street  and  stumbles  into  the  steps  of 
an  office  in  which  telephones  buzz,  typewriters  click,  clerks  rush  about, 
and  Sara  sits  around  bossing  the  job.  He  goes  up  another  street,  asks  who 
built  this  building,  that  store,  and  listens  to  the  monotonous  reply 
'Thorpe  Brothers.'  He  strikes  a  particularly  choice  bunch  of  building 
lots,  and  is  notified  that  he  has  an  opportunity  to  do  business  with 
'  The  Thorpes.'  He  steps  down  the  leading  business  street  and  discovers 
'  The  Thrappie's  '  responsible  for  a  huge  nine-story  office  building  just 
now  about  half-way  up,  and,  without  doubt,  the  finest  in  the  city.  By 
way  of  an  extra  enterprising  touch  they  have  permitted  the  lower  story  of 
the  old  building  on  the  site  to  remain,  digging  under  it,  building  over  it, 
and  thus  never  losing  a  day's  rent  from  foundation  to  roof  top. 

"  The  Thorpes  are  the  same  enthusiastic  sons  of  Princeton,  generous 
as  the  day  is  long.  No  '89  man  need  ever  set  foot  in  Minneapolis  and  ex- 
pect to  have  a  dull  moment  when  either  of  the  Thorpes  is  around. 

"  The  Keunion  of  which  I  spoke  was  a  little  foretaste  of  that  to  be 
held  next  month,  and  I  believe  every  man  of  the  five  who  were  present 
will  be  on  hand  the  day  '89  celebrates  its  Decennial." 

From  the  offices  of  the  Central  Eealty  Com- 
ToDD,  David  R.  pany,  320  Broadway,  New  York  City,  Dave  has 

sent  us  this  most  satisfactory  summary  of  his  recent 
successes : 

"  I  have  been  trying  for  some  weeks  past  to  conjure  up  some  flights 
of  imagination  to  form  the  basis  for  an  interesting  statement  for  the 
Kecord,  but  have  given  up  in  disgust.  I  cannot  do  it.  I  have  no 
romance  to  record,  for  I  am  still  a  bachelor.  In  fact,  I  expect  to  be 
confirmed  shortly.  I  am  not  engaged  misey'aihle  dictu,  and  have  no 
hopes,  though  I  do  not  want  this  to  get  out.  I  cannot  startle  anyone 
with  achievements — commercial,  political  or  literary,  for  I  have  not  made 
any.  Since  1895  I  have  been  in  New  York  City,  hard  at  work  at  law 
and  some  real  estate  dealing  in  connection  with  it.  I  have  been  doing 
nicely,  but  have  not  been  able  to  form  any  trusts  as  yet',  and  therefore 
cannot  boast  of  a  fortune. 

"  I  have  had  enough  of  success,  however,  to  make  the  past  four  years 
exceedingly  pleasant  ones,  and  in  a  way  very  satisfactory.  I  shall  no 
doubt  envy  some  others  when  I  learn  at  the  Keunion  of  the  details  of  the 
great  success  some  of  the  fellows  have  had,  but  the  only  men  I  have  so 


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far  really  envied  are  the  members  of  '89  who  made  such  a  high  record  in 
the  war  with  Spain. 

"  I  have  succeeded  in  organizing  a  company  known  as  the  Central 
Realty  Company,  and  in  connection  with  our  other  business  we  are  doing 
a  nice  business  in  buying  and  improving  city  property. 

"  My  oflBce  and  business  address  is  320  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
My  house  address,  where,  with  two  others,  I  maintain  a  bachelor's  den, 
is  700  West  End  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

"  I  have  omitted  to  mention  that  I  have  no  family.  However, 
Harry  Irons  and  my  brother  John  have  become  so  domestic  that  they 
bid  fair  to  atone  for  any  shortcomings  of  mine  in  that  direction. 

"  I  am  sorry  I  have  not  more  to  record,  but  will  try  and  do  better  at 
the  end  of  the  next  ten  years." 

We  have  made  an  earnest  attempt  to  draw  out 
Todd,  John  R.  John  Todd,  but  in  vain.     All  that  he  has  felt  in- 

clined to  send  us  by  way  of  information  is  the  fol- 
lowing : 

"My  home  address  is  312  Manhattan  Avenue,  New  York  City,  and 
my  business  address,  320  Broadway,  New  York  City.  I  am  operating  in 
real  estate.  I  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Peck  Bray  at  Oskaloosa,  Iowa, 
on  July  15,  1895.  We  have  one  child,  Frances  Bray  Todd,  who  was 
born  on  June  1,  1896. 

"  There  is  nothing  further  to  add.  We  have  been  hard  at  business  at 
the  same  old  stand  and  in  the  same  old  way.  Our  business  has  been  won- 
derfully successful.     The  health  of  my  family  and  myself  is  first-class." 

Torrey  has  furnished  us  with  a  fund  of  facts, 
ToRREY,  Frederic  C.  out  of  which  we  have  formulated  the  following 

biography : 
It  will  be  remembered  that  he  left  the  Class  in  June,  1886,  at  the  end 
of  our  Freshman  year.  In  the  following  September  he  assumed  charge  of 
the  Academy  at  Aquebogue,  Long  Island,  New  York,  where  he  remained 
one  year.  In  the  full  of  1887  he  entered  upon  new  duties  in  connection 
with  the  First  Grammar  Department  of  the  Public  Schools  of  Charlotte, 
North  Carolina.  During  the  school  year  1888-1889  he  was  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  the  Public  Schools  of  Ansonia,  Connecticut ;  and  from  Sep- 
tember, 1889,  to  June,  1890,  he  was  Principal  of  the  Public  Schools  at 


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East  Longmeadow,  Massachusetts.  In  September,  1890,  he  returned  to 
Princeton,  where  he  pursued  a  special  course  until  June,  1892,  when  he 
was  appointed  Instructor  of  Graphics  in  the  John  C.  Green  School  of 
Science.  This  position  he  filled  with  great  acceptance  until  June  ot  the 
present  year.  The  reason  for  his  resignation,  as  well  as  the  respect  in 
which  he  is  held  by  those  associated  with  him,  are  well  expressed  by  Pro- 
fessor Frederick  N.  Willson  when  he  writes  : 

"  Owing  to  recent  radical  changes  in  the  curriculum  of  Princeton's 
Scientific  Department,  in  the  direction  of  greater  provision  for  general, 
and  in  particular,  linguistic  training,  with  a  corresponding  reduction  of 
technical  work,  the  position  of  Instructor  in  Graphics,  for  more  than  seven 
years  held  and  ably  sustained  by  Mr.  Frederic  C.  Torrey,  becomes  super- 
fluous, and  for  that  reason,  and  for  that  alone,  he  seeks  a  new  engagement. 
It  is  with  much  regret  that  I  have  to  contemplate  the  severance  of  a  re- 
lationship which  has  been  highly  valued  both  in  its  professional  and  its 
friendly  aspect. 

"  Should  Mr.  Torrey  continue  in  the  teaching  profession,  he  will 
bring  to  his  work  special  qualifications,  based  primarily  upon  student 
work  of  the  highest  order,  both  in  Princeton's  Academic  and  Scientific 
Departments,  and  later  upon  a  large  teaching  experience,  in  Public  and 
High  School  work,  private  tutoring  in  advanced  branches,  and  the  period 
already  mentioned  of  his  connection  with  the  Department  of  Graphics 
here. 

"  Without  being  anything  of  a  martinet,  his  disciplinary  qualities  are 
of  the  highest  order,  and  his  executive  ability  equally  marked. 

"  The  foregoing  qualifications,  combined  with  a  positive  and  attrac- 
tive personality,  make  him  an  especially  desirable  party  for  any  position 
where  thoroughness,  experience,  initiative  power  and  a  well-founded  self- 
reliance  are  requisite." 

Next  fall,  Torrey  expects  to  begin  his  labors  as  Superintendent  of 
the  Public  Schools  of  Millburn,  Short  Hills  and  Wyoming,  New  Jersey. 
He  reports  having  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
Princeton  at  the  last  Commencement.     He  thus  concludes  his  letter  to  us  : 

"  I  have  little  to  add  by  way  of  details.  In  1895  I  conceived  the 
plan  of  installing  a  telephone  plant  in  Princeton.  Having  interested 
Professor  Libbey  in  the  scheme,  I  formed  with  him  a  copartnership.  We 
put  over  eighty  telephones  in  town  with  an  automatic  '  central.'  Person- 
ally doing  much  of  the  labor,  more  of  the  line  work,  most  of  the  inside 


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wiring,  all  of  the  testing,  splicing  and  repair  of  the  underground  cables,  I 
found  no  time,  with  my  class  work,  for  anything  else  which  could  in  any 
way  interest  the  Class.  I  sold  out  the  plant  to  Professor  Libbey  last 
summer.  I  mention  the  telephone  matter  because  it  seems,  as  I  look  back, 
as  if  I  had  done  nothing  since  1895  but  teach  graphics,  run  wires,  and  do 
a  little  study  and  reading." 

We  wish  him  all  success  in  the  new  position  which  he  is  soon  to 
occupy,  and  which  he  is  well  qualified  to  fill. 

Turner  was  with  us  only  until  December 
Turner,  March  G.  1885.     So  far  as  we  know,  he  has  not  been  seen 

since  by  any  member  of  the  Class.     His  address 
has  never  been  in  our  possession. 

Here  is  a  brief  communication  from  a 
Uebelacker,  Charles  F.  busyman.    It  is  our  misfortune  but  not  our 

fault  that  it  is  no  fuller  of  information  : 

' '  Your  third  or  fourth  circular  reached  me  this  morning.  I  suppose 
1  should  beg  your  pardon  for  not  writing  sooner,  but  I  do  not  see  how  I 
could  have  arranged  it.     I  will  have  to  be  rather  brief  now. 

"  Answering  your  eleven  queries,  I  would  say  that  my  home  address 
is  262  Broadway,  Kingston,  New  York,  and  my  business  address,  Peck- 
ham  Truck  Company,  Kingston,  New  York,  and  26  Cortlandt  Street, 
New  York  City.  My  present  occupation  is  Engineer  and  Manager  of 
said  Truck  Company. 

"I  am  married,  and  to  the  same  girl  as  before.  I  have  two  boys; 
the  eldest  four  years  old,  born  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  in  June,  1894  ; 
his  name  is  Comfort  Armin,  The  youngest  was  born  January  29,  1899, 
at  Kingston,  New  York.  He  has  not  yet  arrived  at  the  dignity  of  any 
other  name  than  'the  kid.'     I  am  not  at  present  engaged  to  anybody. 

"  I  have  filled  no  official  position,  either  ecclesiastical,  political,  edu- 
cational, military  or  social.  My  only  degree  is  that  which  I  received  at 
college.  I  have  written  a  good  many  technical  articles,  published  in  the 
technical  papers  of  the  engineering  profession,  but  I  cannot  give  you  the 
titles  of  them.  I  have  gotten  out  several  patents,  but  could  not  give  you 
the  list  of  them  without  doing  a  lot  of  rummaging.  I  am  afraid  I  cannot 
give  you  any  information  about  any  of  our  classmates,  as  I  see  them 
so  seldom." 


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It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  inform  the  Class,  with  Uebelacker's 
express  approval,  that  "  the  kid  "  above  referred  to  is  no  longer  name- 
less. He  has  been  honored  by  being  called  David  Bovaird  Uebelacker. 
Long  life  to  him,  and  may  he  grow  up  to  be  worthy  of  the  name  he  bears. 

That  there  may  be  no  breaks  in  the  con- 
Van  Waqenen,  C.  D.  tinuity  of  our  record  of  Bandy's   career,  we 

begin  our  present  account  of  him  with  a  leit,er 
which  he  wrote  us  from  Vienna  early  in  September,  1895.     It  reads: 

"  It  is  now  something  over  three  months  since  you  have  had  a  contri- 
bution from  my  pen,  and,  since  I  am  in  this  town  once  more  and  have  a 
few  minutes  at  my  disposal  this  warm  afternoon,  I  can  think  of  nothing 
that  would  please  me  more  than  to  drop  you  a  line,  and  at  the  same  time 
acknowledge  the  receipt  of  '  The  Kecord.' 

"  This  very  valuable  and  altogether  interesting  history  came  to  hand 
in  Salzburg,  the  chief  town  of  the  so-called  Salzkammergut  Region.  Such 
is  the  well  known  antipathy  of  the  writer  to  work  that  his  presence  in  this 
locality  is  rather  easily  explained.  The  month  of  July  was  very  hot  in- 
deed in  Vienna,  making  work  a  trying  matter.  Having  consulted  '  the 
oldest  inhabitant  '  I  was  assured  that  August  was  always  the  hot  and  most 
trying  month  of  summer  in  this  region.  "With  this  prediction  in  view, 
coupled  with  the  fact  that  there  was  little  or  nothing  doing  in  the  line 
of  work,  I  decided  on  a  short  outing  through  Bavaria,  and  then  southward 
into  the  Salzkammergut,  eventually  closing  my  tour  with  a  short  stay 
in  the  Dolomites. 

"  This  plan  was  carried  out  in  respect  to  the  first  and  second  locali- 
ties, and  under  pleasant  conditions  ;  especially  of  weather.  It  was  my 
object  to  arrive  in  Innsbruck  on  or  about  the  twenty-seventh,  where  I 
was  to  meet  several  German  professors  from  Vienna,  and  together  we  were 
to  make  a  walking  tour  in  the  Dolomites.  However,  I  missed  the  Ger- 
mans by  twenty-four  hours,  but  found  a  letter,  which  made  the  trip,  in 
point  of  time,  extend  so  far  into  September  that  I  did  not  feel  justified  in 
continuing  a  member  of  the  party.  Consequently  I  returned  to  Vienna 
last  Friday. 

"  Owing  to  a  migratory  influence  at  work  in  the  family  with  whom 
I  had  previously  been  living,  I  found  it  necessary  to  change  to  my  pres- 
ent quarters,  where  I  am  comfortably,  though  not  entirely  settled,  and 
have  gotten  back  into  harness.     Naturally,  after  my  life  of  indolence, 


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getting  up  at  six  o'clock  in  order  to  attend  a  course  on  some  rather  un- 
savory '  stiffs  '  at  seven  comes  rather  hard,  especially  when  one's  stomach 
is  empty.  Were  it  not  that  the  other  doctors  in  the  course  are  chiefly 
Yale  and  Harvard  men,  and  very  congenial,  I  do  not  think  I  could  man- 
age to  wake  up  in  time.  As  it  is,  it  is  a  severe  shock  to  the  principle 
early  laid  down  in  regard  to  college  chapel  and  breakfast,  and  very  rigidly 
adhered  to  since. 

"  I  was  awfully  glad  to  get  '  The  Kecord,'  and  used  up  an  entire  can- 
dle in  perusal  of  it.  The  boys  seem  to  be  doing  very  nicely  all  over  the 
country.  I  congratulate  you  most  willingly  and  heartily  on  your  success- 
ful publication,  and  let  me  also  add  my  best  wishes  for  your  future  hap- 
piness, both  in  your  connubial  and  ministerial  relations.  I  received  a 
letter  from  Bill  Paxton,  in  which,  besides  telling  me  of  his  engagement 
as  well  as  that  of  about  every  other  Princeton  man,  he  also  informed  me  of 
the  unfortunate  delay  in  the  transmission  of  the  photos  and  plates  of  our 
memorial  to  Durell  in  Rome.  It  was  a  most  stupid  blunder  on  the  part 
of  the  steward  of  the  steamer,  but  fortunately  you  are  now  in  possession 
of  them. 

"  By-the-way,  I  am  afraid  Bill  and  family  influence  have,  for  once, 
caused  our  learned  Secretary  to  stray  from  his  usual  mathematical  exact- 
ness. As  I  understand  it,  it  was  the  seductive  influence  of  his  Princeton 
associates,  combined  with  the  '  Grand  Prix  '  and  a  desire  to  '  feel  the  pulse 
of  the  public,'  which  prevented  Bill  making  his  steamer.  But,  of  course, 
'  washout  on  a  railroad  '  looks  better  in  print  than  '  railroad  to  the  Grand 
Prix.'  Now,  old  man,  I  must  stop  and  go  over  to  the  hospital,  if  only  to 
delude  myself  with  the  idea  that  I  am  working.  I  wish  you  all  success 
as  a  '  sky  pilot,'  (no  disrespect,  etc.,  intended.)  I  will  not  leave  here  be- 
fore December  first,  and  may  remain  all  winter." 

Bandy  returned  to  this  country  about  June,  1896,  and  immediately 
opened  an  oiEce  at  his  home,  39  West  19th  Street.  He  became  connected 
with  the  Demilt  Dispensary  and  the  dispensary  of  the  New  York  Hos- 
pital, as  an  assistant  in  the  departments  of  general  medicine.  He  con- 
tinued in  these  positions  and  in  general  practice  until  the  middle  of  last 
summer,  when  he  entered  the  service,  first  as  an  assistant  recruiting  ofiicer 
of  the  Seventy-first  Regiment ;  later  as  Captain  and  Assistant  Surgeon 
of  the  Two  Hundred  and  First  Regiment.  A  few  weeks  later  he  was 
assigned  to  the  United  States  Hospital  Ship  '  Relief,'  and  made  several 
trips  to  Cuban  and  Porto  Rican  ports,  until,  on  March  the  third  of  this  year, 


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he  sailed  with  her  for  Manila.  She  was  reported  on  April  the  sixth  at 
Singapore,  and  was  expected  to  arrive  at  her  station  on  April  the  eleventh. 
His  interest  and  energy  and  unwearying  personal  efforts,  at  considerable 
sacrifice  of  his  time  ashore  during  her  last  stop  in  this  port,  enabled  her 
to  sail  with  a  good  library  and  an  Eolian,  the  latter  equipped  with  the  latest 
popular  tunes,  for  the  amusement  of  the  many  patients  she  will  have  at 
Manila. 

His  official  title  and  grade  are  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  United 
States  Army,  with  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant. 

We  are  indebted  to  Waters  for  the  above  details  of  '  Bandy's '  recent 
past.  Though  not  as  full  as  we  might  wish,  they  must  suffice  until  the 
personal  letter  from  Bandy,  which  we  are  expecting  daily,  comes  to  hand. 
We  hope  that  it  will  arrive  in  time  to  find  a  place  in  the  Appendix. 

Writing  from  the  office  of  the  New  York 
Walton,  Perry  Evening  Journal,  Walton  has  this  to  say  for  him- 

self: 

"  There  is  little  to  add  to  what  I  have  already  written  for  the  Class 
Histories  published  heretofore.  I  am  still  in  journalistic  traces,  pulling 
as  hard  as  ever ;  but  I  have  the  satisfaction  now  of  '  bossing  '  rather  than 
being  '  bossed. ' 

"  I  am  assisting  in  the  financial  management  of  one  of  the  great 
dailies  and  have  had  more  than  a  share  of  success. 

"  I  am  unmarried,  and  liable  to  remain  so.  My  home  is  still  in 
Newark,  with  my  sisters.  I  have  been  too  busy  to  take  more  than  a 
voter's  interest  in  politics  and  have  held  no  public  offices. 

"  Time  has  treated  me  very  kindly,  beyond  stealing  my  locks,  and  I 
am  fast  merging  into  a  contented  old  bachelorhood." 

We  are  glad  to  hear  of  Walton's  success.     May  it  continue ! 

Our   worthy   Vice-President  has   paused 
Warren,  Howard  C.  long  enough  in  his  "sensational"  career  to 

compose  this  concise  account  of  himself: 
"  As  you  know,  a  number  of  us  are  still  holding  the  fort  at  Prince- 
ton, having  become  too  enamored  of  the  old  place  to  tear  ourselves  away. 
Brooks  and  Bobbins  are  standing  by  the  old  traditions  of  the  place  by 
seeking  to  advance  the  cause  of  mathematics  and  the  classics,  while  I  am 


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endeavoring  to  further  new  ideals  (and  the  graduate  department)  by 
teaching  psychology.  Neher  and  Torrey  represent  the  Class  in  the  School 
of  Science  faculty  ;  and  Eand,  insisting  on  the  need  of  a  thorough  prepa- 
ration before  entering  college,  is  conducting  a  successful  preparatory  school 
here. 

"  My  own  special  line  is  experimental  psychology,  and  I  am  now 
helping  to  run  the  psychological  laboratory,  which  is  in  North  College, 
including  the  well-known  room  of  Bobby  Life  and  '  Governor  '  Gulick.  My 
chief  is  Professor  J.  Mark  Baldwin,  whom  many  of  the  Class  will  remember 
in  connection  with  our  Sophomore  French.  Besides  this,  I  am  doing 
some  work  in  the  line  of  bibliography.  These  duties,  and  the  infirmities 
of  increasing  years,  have  well-nigh  suppressed  an  early  tendency  to  travel 
abroad,  and  I  am  now  living  in  quiet  and  peaceful  bachelorhood  in  the 
house  known  as  the  '  Monastery,'  with  no  greater  amount  of  vagabondage 
than  is  offered  by  an  occasional  bicycle  trip.  As  the  name  of  my  abode 
indicates,  I  am  not  married,  nor  can  I  offer  the  Class  any  prospect  of  such 
a  step. 

"  So,  you  see,  my  story  is  short.  Some  progress  in  the  past,  sweet 
contentment  in  the  present,  and  no  prospect  of  any  startling  changes  in 
the  immediate  future.  And  all  I  can  add  is  that  we  who  still  make 
Princeton  our  headquarters  will  do  our  utmost  to  welcome  the  rest  of  you 
back  here  next  June,  and  show  you  the  wonderful  changes  that  have  come 
about  since  our  own  day.     Selah. 

"  Any  of  the  above  rot  you  are  at  liberty  to  use  in  the  Kecord,  Mr. 
Secretary,  if  thereby  the  Class  will  seem  to  be  profited  one  whit,  which  is 
doubtful  in  the  extreme.  But  verily,  blessed  are  the  lands  that  have  no 
history.     Success  to  you  in  the  unthankful  task  of  the  Secretaryship." 

The  following  additional  details  will  interest  many  of  our  members  : 
Warren  was  elected  Assistant  Professor  of  Experimental  Psychology  in 
Princeton  University  in  February,  1896.  For  four  years,  1895-8,  he  was 
joint  compiler  of  the /'sycAo^o^icaZ/nrfea:,  an  annual  of  which  he  is  now 
the  sole  compiler.  During  1896-7  he  was  associate  editor  of  the  American 
Naturalist.  Since  1896  he  has  been  a  collaborator  of  the  Annee  Psycho- 
logique,  a  French  publication.  He  is  also  on  the  editorial  staff  of  Bald- 
win's 'Dictionary  of  Philosophy  and  Psychology'.  He  was  a  contributor 
to  Johnson's  Cyclopedia,  and  an  associate  compiler  of  bibliography  for 
the  Zeiischrift  fur  Psychologic,  a  German  publication.  And  during  the 
last  four  years  he  has  contributed  several  articles  to  the  Psychological 
Review,  and  book  reviews  to  that  and  other  magazines. 


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One  of  the  most  earnest,  energetic  and 
Waters,  Bertram  H.  interested  of  the  members  of  that  immortal 

body  known  as  "  The  Decennial  Keunion 
Committee  of  the  Class  of  1889  "  has  transmitted  this  to  us  as  his  contri- 
bution to  our  store  of  information.  All  that  Waters  has  written  will  be 
found  interesting  reading,  but  especially  his  account  of  his  visit  to 
Durell's  grave. 

"As  I  sit  down  to  make  an  attempt  to  answer  your  request  for 
biographical  data,  it  seems  to  me  that  I  have  little  to  say  that  will  be  of 
general  interest  to  the  Class,  beyond  replying  to  your  categorical  in- 
quiries. I  hope  the  retrospect  of  my  last  four  years  will  not  prove  more 
lacking  in  '  faits  accomplis  '  than  that  of  the  average  classmate,  but  I 
know  that  many  of  them  will  be  able,  if  they  are  honest  and  communica- 
tive, to  add  far  more  than  I,  both  of  literature  as  such,  and  of  work  and 
working,  to  your  budget.  Those  of  us  who  have  taken  to  professional 
callings  pass,  during  their  lirst  decennial,  through  a  period  of  more  or 
less  assiduous,  continuous  and  efficient  practical  preparation  for  a  larger 
and  more  important  future  toward  which  we  try  to  keep  our  eyes  set ; 
a  period  of  quiet,  hard  work,  which  reveals  little  that  is  worth  noting  as 
we  look  back  over  it.     I  am  no  exception  among  the  number. 

"  At  the  time  of  our  Sexennial  Eeunion,  which  I  have  always  re- 
gretted missing,  I  was  just  completing  two  years'  service  as  an  interne  on 
the  house-staff  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  of  this  citj'.  Leaving  there 
early  in  July,  1895,  after  a  short  holidaj^,  I  entered,  also  in  the  capacity 
of  a  resident  physician,  the  Sloane  Maternity  Hospital  here,  remaining 
there  three  months.  Soon  afterward,  in  December,  1895,  I  had  the  good 
fortune  to  be  able  to  make  quite  an  extended  trip  to  Europe,  which  in- 
cluded Egj'pt  and  Italy,  and  brought  me  finally  to  Vienna,  where  I  spent 
a  little  time  sitting  at  the  feet  of  the  German  medical  savants. 

"  To  me  it  was  all  a  most  wonderful  new  existence,  an  experience 
which  even  now,  after  a  second  short  trip  the  following  summer,  seems 
quite  like  a  fascinating  romance  that  I  have  read.  I  think  I  never  saw 
or  understood  before  half  that  the  world  is  and  means.  One  experience  I 
shall  never  forget,  and  though  it  occurred  also  to  Paxton  and  Van- 
Wagenen,  and  has  been  described  by  the  latter,  I  should  like  to  speak  of 
it.  I  refer  to  a  visit  to  Eddie  Durell's  grave.  Passing  far  out  along 
narrow  streets,  and  gradually  leaving  the  city  by  the  Porta  San  Paolo, 
one  comes  shortly  after  leaving  the  great  wall  to  a  gentle  slope  and  hill- 


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side,  thickly  planted  with  poplars  and  cypresses  and  facing  the  western 
sun.  Through  its  silent  aisles  by  graveled  paths  one  walks,  soothed  and 
awed  by  the  gentle  murmur  of  the  Waldweben,  a  rod  or  so,  and  stands 
mutely  sympathetic  and  proud  to  pay  the  tribute  of  affectionate  recollec- 
tion of  his  life  with  us,  before  the  plain  marble  which  marks  the  spot, 
and  whose  inscription  bears  testimony  to  the  loving  regard  of  many 
friends  so  far  away." 

"  One  could  not  choose  a  lovelier  resting  place.  From  it  one  sees 
through  the  drooping  boughs,  the  cloudless  sapphire  of  the  Italian  sky, 
the  occasional  sunbeams  which  penetrate  the  cool  shade  falling  like 
golden  arrows,  and  over  there  the  Eternal  City  and  the  shining  ribbon  of 
the  Tiber.  The  thought  occurred  to  me  as  I  stood  there  that  this  simple 
tomb  and  its  inscription  must  ever  appeal  to  the  University  man  who 
lingers  a  moment  beside  it,  stirring  within  him  those  sentiments  of  manly, 
loyal,  affectionate  comradeship,  which  unite  us  all  in  one  fraternity  as 
University  men. 

"This  fascinating  business  of  seeing  something  of  the  world  occupied 
my  time  pretty  much  until  October,  1896.  Since  then  I  have  settled 
down  into  the  (as)  busy  (as  possible)  general  practitioner,  with  a  penchant 
for  surgery.  I  keep  up  my  connection  with  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  as 
an  assistant  in  its  dispensary,  and  have  recently  succeeded  in  obtaining 
some  additional  experience  as  an  assistant  in  Trinity  Hospital. 

"  This  carries  me  up  to  date,  and  is,  I  believe,  the  full  extent  to 
which  I  can  truthfully  blow  my  own  trumpet." 

Watts  finds  little  in  his  life  during  the 
Watts,  Stephen  K.  past  four  years  which  he  thinks  will  interest 

the  Class.  He  answers  our  circular  very  cor- 
dially but  very  concisely  by  saying  : 

"Your  circular  of  April  first  is  at  hand,  and  I  will  answer  its  ques- 
tions as  requested,  and  trust  that  thus  you  may  be  helped  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  the  Decennial  Kecord  of  '89. 

"  My  home  address  is  207  West  Fifty-sixth  Street,  New  York  City. 
I  am  connected  with  the  firm  of  Watts  Brothers,  Converters  of  Cotton 
Linings  and  Importers  of  Linen  Elastic  Canvasses,  with  oflices  in  New 
York  City,  at  114  Franklin  Street. 

"I  was  married  to  Miss  Nellie  Mott  on  December  18,  1895,  in  New 
York  City.  We  have  one  child,  Frances  Elizabeth  Watts,  who  was 
born  in  New  York  City  on  April  11,  1897. 


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"  To  the  remaining  six  questions  of  your  circular  I  must  respond  in 
the  negative.     You  have  my  best  wishes  for  success." 


From  his  home  in  Indiana,  Pennsylvania, 
White,  Thomas  White  writes  us : 

"  Little  did  I  think,  when  writing  of  myself 
for  the  Sexennial  Kecord  in  1895,  that  our  decennial  year  would  find  me 
in  my  present  hors  du  combat  condition.  The  rapid  life  of  Chicago  and 
environments  proved  too  much  for  my  constitution,  and  I  am  now  more  or 
less  a  physical  wreck,  though  improving  rapidly,  and  I  feel  that  by  the 
end  of  the  century  I  will  have  regained  my  prestine  vigor.  For  two 
years  I  have  been  unable  to  do  any  sort  of  work,  other  than  take  care  of 
myself  and  wonder  what  to-morrow  would  bring  forth. 

"  To-day,  May  the  fifteenth,  I  start  for  New  York  City,  again  to  try 
to  be  of  some  use  to  myself  and  the  world.  My  work  will  be  with  the 
Sanborn-Perris  Map  Company  of  115  Broadway.  This  concern  makes 
surveys  and  maps  of  every  city  and  town  in  the  United  States  for  pub- 
lishing and  insurance  purposes.  I  was  doing  field  work  for  this  company 
in  Chicago  when  taken  sick  in  1896. 

"  I  am  not  married,  never  was,  and  have  no  prospects,  not  even  a 
desire  ;  consequently  I  am  not  now,  nor  have  I  ever  been,  engaged.  Any 
children  ?     That's  my  private  business. 

"  I  have  no  doubt  but  that,  had  I  not  lost  my  health,  I  would  have 
held  some  sort  of  an  important  office,  received  numerous  honorary  degrees, 
written  books  or  distributed  handbills,  and,  perchance,  invented  a  non- 
flying-machine  or  established  a  free  library. 

"  While  in  New  York  City  last  winter,  undergoing  medical  treat- 
ment, I  met  a  number  of  '89  men,  and  of  course  enjoyed  their  society. 
My  old  and  good  friend  Brownlee  I  saw  almost  daily,  and  with  his  cheery 
ministrations  and  occasional  calls  from  Cole,  Gulick,  '  Berry  '  McCord 
and  others,  I  managed  to  pull  through  six  months  of  denial,  weakness, 
despondency,  irritability,  et  cetera — especially  the  latter.  I  hope  the 
Decennial  gathering  will  be  a  huge  success." 

The  Class  will  regret  to  hear  of  White's  long  illness,  and  will  rejoice 
with  him  over  his  returning  strength  and  renewed  vigor.  That  unbroken 
health  may  hereafter  be  his  portion  in  life  is  the  wish  of  us  all. 


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A  readable  resume  from  Whitney  is  next 
Whitney,  Thomas  B.  in  order.     He  says  : 

"  I  am  very  glad  to  hear  from  you  again 
and  inclose  herewith  the  desired  information. 

"  My  home  address  is  Wallingford,  Delaware  County,  Pennsylvania. 
My  place  of  business  is  at  the  Car  Wheel  Works  of  A.  Whitney  &  Sons, 
Ninth  and  Montgomery  Avenues,  Philadelphia.  At  present  I  am 
engaged  as  a  writer  and  compiler  for  the  Philadelphia  Commercial  Mu- 
seum.    I  am  unmarried  and  unengaged. 

"  I  was  a  corporal  and  Spanish  interpreter  in  the  First  Kegiment, 
United  States  Volunteer  Engineers,  from  June,  1898,  to  January,  1899. 
I  saw  service  in  Puerto  Eico  during  August,  September,  October  and 
November,  1898.  I  was  assigned  to  duty  as  interpreter  to  Captain  Hough 
of  the  First  United  States  Volunteer  Engineers,  on  the  report  of  Spanish 
Government  property  turned  over  to  the  United  States  in  Province  of 
Ponce,  Puerto  Rico. 

"  I  have  been  in  Philadelphia  since  June,  1895,  continuously,  with 
exception  of  two  short  visits  on  the  St.  Lawrence  River,  and  five  months 
in  the  army,  of  which  six  weeks  were  spent  in  camp  at  Peekskill,  New 
York,  and  three  and  a  half  months  in  Puerto  Rico.  I  have  been  very  busy 
and  entirely  occupied  with  work.  I  have  seen  little  or  nothing  of  any 
Princeton  men,  with  the  exception  of  Bayard,  whom  I  run  across  occa- 
sionally. I  met  in  1894,  in  California,  some  of  Basil  Ricketts'  people, 
from  whom  I  learned  that  he  was  living  in  San  Francisco  and  studying 
law.  Ricketts  was  with  the  Rough  Riders  last  summer,  and  was  hit  in 
one  of  the  fights  around  Santiago.  In  regard  to  expectations  for  the 
future,  the  future  will  be  able  to  talk  better  than  I  can.  I  am  looking 
forward  with  eagerness  to  the  forthcoming  Decennial  Record." 

It  was  with  much  pleasure  that  we  read 

WiCKHAM,  Louis  W.  this   letter   from  Wickham.     As  he   failed  to 

answer  our  communications  four;  years  ago,  we 

feared  that  he  had  forgotten  the  friendships   of  the  past.     We  find,  and 

with  gladness,  that  our  fears  were  groundless.     He  writes  us  : 

"  Your  second  letter  requesting  information  a^  to  my  humble  self  for 
publication  in  the  Decennial  Record  of  the  Class  of  1889  is  received.  I  am 
sorry  to  have  put  you  to  the  trouble  of  calling  upon  me  twice,  but  have 
been  busy,  and  your  first  communication  was  mislaid. 


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"  Both  my  home  and  business  address  are  Norwalk,  Ohio.  My  occu- 
pation since  October,  1889,  has  been  that  of  attornej-'at-law.  I  married 
at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  August  9,  1892,  Miss  Lillie  E.  Benedict.  "We  have 
two  children — Susan,  bom  June  25,  1893;  and  Cora,  born  February  23, 
1895.  I  have  held  no  official  positions,  either  ecclesiastical,  political,  edu- 
cational, military  or  social.  I  have  received  no  degree  and  no  honors,  I 
have  neither  written  nor  published  any  book  or  pamphlet,  and  have  made 
no  inventions." 

"We  had  about  given  up  hope  of  hearing 
Windsor,  Arthur  D.  from  Windsor,  when  this  welcome  response  to 

our  inquiries  came  to  hand  : 

"  I  hope  there  was  a  large  attendance  at  the  Decennial  Keunion  of 
'89,  and  I  am  more  than  sorry  it  was  impossible  for  me  to  be  present,  and 
that  I  must  be  content  with  the  hope  of  better  luck  next  time. 

"  It  has  not  been  my  good  fortune  to  meet  any  of  our  classmates  since 
four  years  ago  in  Pittsburg  when  at  the  Hotel  Duquesne  I  saw  Paxton 
and  Brownlee.  At  that  time  I  had  just  been  admitted  to  the  practice  of 
law.  David  Bovaird  favored  me  with  a  letter  a  short  time  ago  telling  me 
about  some  of  the  fellows.     So  you  must  send  me  a  Decennial  Record. 

"  My  place  of  business  at  present  is  in  Jamestown,  New  York  ;  my 
home  address  Brocton,  New  York.  I  am  not  married  nor  engaged  to  be, 
nor  have  I  done  anything  of  importance  worth  speaking  about.  I  wish 
it  were  otherwise  just  to  have  it  in  the  Record. 

"  I  wish  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1889  happy  lives,  and  hope 
that  the  star  of  prosperity  will  shed  its  benign  lustre  over  them." 

From  the  office  of  the  Knox  Lumber  Com- 
WiNTON,  William  C.  pany,  manufacturers  of  band  sawed  lumber, 

lath  and  shingles,  Winton,  Minnesota,  Winton 
wrote  us  to  this  effect : 

"  Yours  of  June  seventh  at  hand,  and  contents  noted.  In  reply  I 
will  state  that  my  home  address  is  1509  East  First  Street,  Duluth,  Min- 
nesota. My  business  addresses  are  Winton,  Minnesota,  and  103  Palladio 
Building,  Duluth,  Minnesota.  I  was  married  on  June  10,  1891,  to  Miss 
Zerlina  Adele  Knox,  at  Wausau,  Wisconsin.  We  have  three  children, 
David  Knox,  Francis  E.  and  Zerlena,  all  of  whom  were  born  in  Duluth, 
Minnesota. ' ' 


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We  are  certainly  in  luck  this  year.  Winton  is  the  third  man  in  suc- 
cession from  whom  we  heard  nothing  in  1895,  and  who  has  been  kind 
enough  to  respond  to  our  inquiries  at  this  time. 

Wyckoffs  reply  to  our  request  for  per- 
WyCKOFF,  J.  Edwards  sonal  information  is  as  follows,  and  with  it 

the  Biographical  Section  of  the  Record 
closes  : 

"  Referring  to  the  Class  circular  of  April  first  I  would  say  : 

"  We  removed,  as  you  may  remember,  from  New  York  to  Engle- 
wood  in  the  autumn  of  1896,  and  have  thoroughly  enjoyed  country  life. 

"  I  still  continue  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  last  spring  formed  a 
partnership  with  Butler,  '91,  when  we  removed  our  offices  from  the  old 
Trinity  Building  to  71  Broadway. 

"  I  am  a  member  of  the  Bar  Association,  and  of  the  Princeton  Club, 
and  also  of  the  Country  Club  in  Englewood. " 

WyckofTs  marriage  was  noted  in  our  Triennial  Record.  He  was 
present  at  the  Decennial  Reunion  and,  in  company  with  some  other  sensi- 
ble members  of  the  Class,  brought  his  wife  with  him. 


POSTSCRIPT. 

The  above  remark  enables  us  to  conclude  this  collection 
of  Eighty-Nine  Tales  most  gracefully,  for  we  are  reminded 
thereby  to  present  our  compliments  to  all  of  our  Honorary 
Members,  and  to  extend  to  them  the  freedom  of  these  pages. 
And  this  we  do,  trusting  that  the  ladies,  as  well  as  their  lorda, 
will  linger  long  over  the  lines  of  this  labor  of  love. 


^^mm 


STATISTICAL  RECORD 


JULY  1,  1889-JULY  i,   1899 


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Class  Organization. 


President. 

Db.  David  Bovaird,  Jr. 

Vice-President. 

Professor  Howard  Crosby  "Warren. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Rev.  Lewis  Setmoxjr  Mudqe. 


Class  Memorial  Committee. 
Robert  Elliott  Speer,  Chairman. 
Clarence  Blair  Mitchell,  Treasurer. 
Maitland  Alexander, 
Frank  Snowden  Katzenbach,  Jr., 
Bertram  Howard  Waters. 

Decennial  Mem.orial  Com,m,ittee. 
Robert  Elliott  Speer,  Chairman. 
Clarence  Blair  Mitchell,  Treasurer. 
Maitland  Alexander, 
Frank  Snowden  Katzenbach,  Jr., 
Bertram  Howard  "Waters. 

Decennial  Reunion  Committee. 
David  Bovaird,  Jr.,  Chairman. 
Philip  Ashton  Rollins,  Secretary. 
Lewis  Seymour  Mudge,  Treasurer. 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
"William  Miller  Paxton,  Jr., 
Howard  Crosby  Warren, 
Bertram  Howard  Waters. 


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Sesqui- Centennial  Reunion  Committee. 
Philip  Ashton  Kollins,  Chairman. 
A.  Edward  Conover,  Jr., 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
T.  H.  Powers  Sailer, 
Howard  Crosby  Warren. 

Com?nittee  for  New  York  City. 

Philip  Ashton  Eollins,  Chairman. 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
Cornelius  Doremus  Van  Wagenen, 
David  Bovaird,  Jr.,  ex-officio. 

Edwards  Memx)riaL  Comm,ittee. 
Howard  Crosby  Warren. 


Special  Memorial  Committees. 

On  Death  of  Richnond  Ogston  Aulick. 
Clarence  Blair  Mitchell. 

On  Death  of  Harry  Guriiee  Drummond. 

Howard  Crosby  Warren,  Chairman. 

John  Milton  Brooks, 

Fred  Neher, 

Edmund  Yard  Bobbins. 

O71  Death  of  Oeorge  Kerr  Edwards. 

Philip  Ashton  Eollins,   Chairman. 
Arthur  Audley  Brownlee, 
Alexander  Eeading  Gulick. 

On  Death  of  Joshua  Brush  Gesner. 

David  Bovaird,  Jr., 
Lewis  Seymour  Mudge. 


139 


Class  Necrology. 


Richmond  Ogston  Aulick, 
Born,  July  16,  1866. 
Died,  July  16,  1897,  at  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 

Byron  Stone  Clarke, 

Born,  January  16,  1868. 

Died,  January  17,  1891,  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey. 

Harry  Gurnee  Drummond, 

Born,  October  15,  1867. 

Died,  February  28,  1896,  at  San  Diego,  California. 

William  Edward  Durell, 

Born,  November  8,  1869. 

Died,  April  6,  1892,  at  Kome,  Italy. 

George  Kerr  Edwards, 

Born,  September  25,  1866. 

Died,  June  14,  1897,  at  Princeton,  New  Jei-sey. 

James  Oliver  Gayley, 

Born,  November  4,  1869. 

Died,  September  4,  1894,  at  Saltsburg,  Pennsylvania. 

Joshua  Brush  Gesner, 

Born,  October  30,  1867. 

Died,  January  21,  1897,  at  Somerville,  South  Carolina. 

James  Frederick  Stebbins, 
Born,  June  21,  1868. 
Died,  January  9,  1893,  at  Pelham  Manor,  New  York. 


THE  FOLLOWING  DIED  BEFORE  GRADUATION: 
Paul  C.  Lamar. 
Alfred  S.  Hartz. 
Foster  W.  Weeks. 


140 


Marriages  of  Classmates. 


Atkinson,  Jarvis  N.,  to  Miss  Mary  Frances  Cloyd,  of  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey,  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  April  5,  1892. 

Atkinson,  W.  Patterson,  to  Miss  Helen  Turnure  Underhill, 
of  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  January  2, 1894. 

AuGiNBAUGH,  Thomas  L.,  to  Miss  Mary  Katherinh  Officer, 
of  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  at  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio,  June  9,  1898. 

Barr,  Alfred  H.,  to  Miss  Annie  Elizabeth  Wilson,  of  In- 
diana, Pennsylvania,  at  Indiana,  Pennsylvania,  February  17,  1897. 

Barr,  J.  Koqers,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Nelson  Wood,  of  Hopkins- 
ville,  Kentucky,  at  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky,  February  20,  1895. 

Belknap,  Eugene  W.,  to  Miss  Isabella  Hall  Mann,  of  Syra- 
cuse, New  York,  at  Syracuse,  New  York,  April  22,  1897. 

Berry,  Edward  P.,  to  Miss  Jane  Gertrude  Adams,  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  April  9,  1896. 

Black,  Frederick,  to  Miss  Ellen  Thompson  Lennig,  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  January  24,  1889. 

Borden,  E.  Shirley,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Miskey,  of  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  November  12,  1890. 

BovAiRD,  David,  Jr.,  to  Miss  Louise   Larken,  of  Woodbridge, 
Suffolk,  England,  at  Montreal,  Canada,  December  27,  1898. 

Boyle,  Edward  L.,  to  Miss  Imogene  Snowden,  of  Memphis, 
Tennessee,  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  January  5,  1898. 

Braislin,  William  C,  to  Miss  Alice  P.  Cameron,  of  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  October  19,  1892. 


141 


Breckenridge,  Desha,  to  Miss  Madelaine  McDowell,  of  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky,  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  November  17,  1898. 

Broadwell,  William  J.,  to  Miss  Florence  Cudlipp,  of  New 

York  City,  at  New  York  City,  February,  1894, 

Browning,  J.  Prentiss,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Work  Olcott,  of 
New  York  City,  at  New  York  City,  May  10,  1893. 

Carter,  G.  Herbert,  to  Miss  Cora  E.  Brush,  of  Greenlawn, 
New  York,  at  Greenlawn,  New  York,  June  13,  1894. 

Chase,  William  S.,  to  Miss  Grace  I.  Seiberling,  of  Akron, 
Ohio,  at  Akron,  Ohio,  September  1,  1892. 

Church,  Frederic  J.,  to  Miss  Bella  Roe  Ruff,  of  Seattle, 
Washington,  at  Seattle,  Washington,  September  27,  1893. 

Conner,  Henry  W.,  Jr.,  to  Miss  Anna  Morris  Vander  Horst, 
of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  July  6, 
1897. 

CoNOVER,  A.  Edward,  Jr.,  to  Miss  Irene  Botnton,  of  New  York 
City,  at  New  York  City,  January  11,  1892. 

Cook,  William  J.,  to  Miss  Mary  L.  Huyck,  of  Sheridan,  New 
York,  at  Dunkirk,  New  York,  October  19,  1887. 

Curtis,  George  L.,  to  Miss  Katharine  M.  Strang,  of  Elmira, 
New  York,  at  Elmira,  New  York,  June  27,  1895. 

Ford,  H.  Ward,  to  Miss  Rosette  Suckley,  of  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  April  8,  1891. 

Fulmer,  Llewellyn  S.,  to  Miss  Josephine  Rusling,  of  Oak 
Lane,  Pennsylvania,  at  Abington,  Pennsylvania,  October  18,  1892. 

George,  William  J.,  to  Miss  Isabel  Arms  Parsons,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  July  2,  1894. 

Gesner,  Joshua  B.,  to  Miss  Lena  A.  Blancke,  of  Linden,  New 
Jersey,  at  Linden,  New  Jersey,  November  18,  1891. 

Gillespie,  George  E.,  to  Miss  Lillian  De  Ette  Runyon,  of 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  November  10,  1892. 


142 


GiLLiLAND,  W.  F,,  to  Miss  Ada  Patterson,  of  Buena  Vista, 
Pennsylvania,  at  Buena  Vista,  Pennsylvania,  March  13,  1889. 

Graham,  Malbone  H.,  to  Miss  Nellie  Nevegold,  of ,  at 

Bogota,  Republic  of  Colombia,  South  America,  July  8,  1896. 

Gray,  J.  Charles,  to  Miss  Frances  Southgate,  of  Annapolis, 
Maryland,  at  Annapolis,  Maryland,  January  24,  1893. 

Grey,  Norman,  to  Miss  Louise  Booth  Sinnickson,  of  Salem, 
Nev/  Jersey,  at  Salem,  New  Jersey,  October  24,  1893. 

Halstead,  Albert,  to  Miss  Aline  Wilcox,  of  Washinsjton,  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  December  8, 
1896. 

Hevtitt,  Edward  R.,  to  Miss  Mary  Emma  Ashley,  of  Toledo, 
Ohio,  at  Put-in-Bay  Island,  Lake  Erie,  Ohio,  September  7,  1892. 

Hughes,  Stanley  C,  to  Miss  Lydia  Helen  Foulke,  of  Rich- 
mond, Indiana,  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  June  1,  1897. 

Hunter,  James,  to  Miss  Harriet  Condit  Leake,  of  New  York 
City,  at  New  York  City,  October  4,  1892. 

Irons,  Henry  C,  to  Miss  Helen  Lamb  Davis,  of  New  York 
City,  at  New  York  City,  October  31,  1894. 

Jenney,  William  S.,  to  Miss  Nina  G.  Bevan,  of  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, at  Syracuse,  New  York,  April  16,  1895. 

Kauffmann,  Victor,  to  Miss  Jessie  Christopher,  of  Washing- 
ton, District  of  Columbia,  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1894. 

King,  William  H.,  to  Miss  Mary  Stokes,  of  West  Chester,  Penn- 
sylvania, at  West  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  May  12,  1892. 

Kneeland,  Furman  L.,  to  Miss  Annie  A.  Otis,  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  at  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April  24,  1893. 

Lee,  Graham,  to  Miss  Blanche  Webb,  of  Evansville,  Indiana, 
at  Evansville,  Indiana,  January  10,  1894. 

Lewis,  Robert  Charles,  to  Miss  Pauline  Pknniman,  of  New 
York  City,  at  New  York  City,  October  13,  1896. 


143 


Maxwell,  George  T.,  to  Miss  Marie  Katmond,  of  New  York 
City,  at  New  York  City,  November  9,  1895. 

McCoRD,  Alvin  C,  to  Miss  Emily  Davis  Rowe,  of  Evanston, 
Illinois,  at  Evanston,  Illinois,  December  22,  1896. 

McCord,  D.  Walter,  to  Miss  Fannie  E.  Datis,  of  Danville,  Illi- 
nois, at  Chicago,  Illinois,  August  23,  1893. 

McKee,  Thomas  M.,  to  Miss  Nellie  Foster  Wood,  of  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  November  29,  1889. 

Merrill,  George  G.,  to  Miss  Pauline  Dresser,  of  Newport, 
Rhode  Island,  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  December  1,  1897. 

Mitchell,  Clarence  B.,  to  Miss  Lucy  Mildred  Matthews,  of 
New  York  City,  at  Irvington-on-Hudson,  New  York,  December  4,  1889. 

MuDGE,  Lewis  S.,  to  Miss  Caroline  Denny  Paxton,  of  Prince- 
ton, New  Jersey,  at  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  February  11,  1896. 

Neher,  Fred,  to  Miss  Harriett  Hutchins,  of  Beloit,  Wisconsin, 
at  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  September  7,  1898. 

Noel,  Henry  G.,  to  Miss  Lena  Bird  Wylie,  of  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  June  8,  1890. 

NoYEs,  Thomas  C,  to  Miss  Dorothy  Byrde  Rogers,  of  Wash- 
ington, District  of  Columbia,  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  Sep- 
tember 5,  1894. 

Paxton,  William  M.,  Jr.,  to  Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth  Thomas, 
of  New  York  City,  at  New  York  City,  May  12,  1897. 

Remington,  Fred.  A.,  to  Miss  Mary  N.  Coleman,  of  Great  Bar- 
rington,  Massachusetts,  at  Great  Barrington,  Massachusetts,  March  28, 
1894. 

Rollins,  Philip  A.,  to  Miss  B.  B.  Pack,  of  Asheville,  North  Car- 
olina, at  Asheville,  North  Carolina,  May  16,  1895. 

Sailer,  Thomas  H.  Powers,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Jackson 
Clothier,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  at  Wynnewood,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  April  30,  1895. 


144 


ScoFiELD,  "William  H.,  to  Miss  Belle  Bradley,  of  Manchester, 
Iowa,  at  Manchester,  Iowa,  May  27,  1897. 

Segur,  Willard  B.,  to  Miss  Maria  Theresa  Baker,  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  at  Pittsfield,  Vermont,  April  13,  1895. 

Smith,  Lewis  M.,  to  Miss  Ellen  Kuth  Gibbons,  of  Kirkville, 
Missouri,  at  Dunmore,  Pennsylvania,  October  7,  1897. 

Speer,  Egbert  Elliott,  to  Miss  Emma  Dgll  Bailet,  of  Harris- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  at  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  April  20,  1893. 

Stebbins,  F.  Lansing,  to 

Taylor,  Duncan  Warren,  to  Miss  Alice  Cleveland  Cadt, 
of  New  York  City,  at  New  York  City,  October  12,  1898. 

Taylor,  Walter  C,  to 

Terhune,  John  A.,  to  Miss  Mignonette  Bogert,  of  Westwood, 
New  Jersey,  at  Westwood,  New  Jersey,  June  26,  1889. 

Thorpe,  James  R.,  to  Miss  Amelia  Foss,  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, at  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  May  3,  1894. 

Todd,  John  R.,  to  Miss  Alice  Peck  Bray,  of  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  at 
Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  July  16,  1895. 

Uebelacker,  Charles  F..  to  Miss  Helen   Adele  Adams,  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  November  1,  1893. 

Watts,  Stephen  K.,  to  Miss  Nellie  Mott,  of  New  York  City, 
at  New  York  City,  December  18,  1895. 

WiCKHAM,  Louis  W.,  to  Miss  Lillie  E.  Benedict,  of  Norwalk, 
Ohio,  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  August  9,  1892. 

WiNTON,  William  C,  to  Miss  Zerlena  Adele  Knox,  of  Wau- 
sau,  Wisconsin,  at  Wausau,  Wisconsin,  June  10,  1891. 

Wyckoff,  J.  Edwards,  to  Miss  Emma  Frost  Heath,  of  New 
York  City,  at  New  York  City,  March  7,  1892. 


145 


Children  of  Classmates. 


Atkinson,  Thalia  Antoinette, 

Born,  Glen  Head,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  January  7,  1893. 

Atkinson,  Dorothy, 

Born,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  February  17,  1896. 
Died,  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  February  18,  1896. 

Atkinson,  Cedric  Underhill, 

Born,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  December  14,  1897. 

Barr,  John  Watson, 

Born,  Hopkinsville,  Ky.,  April  29,  1896. 

Barr,  Jason  Rogers,  Jr., 

Born,  Lexington,  Ky.,  February  21,  1899. 

Belknap,  Eugene  McCawly, 

Born,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  February  1,  1898. 

Berry,  Dorothy  Adams, 

Born,  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  February  16,  1897. 
Died,  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  April  21,  1897. 

Black,  Ellen  Lennig. 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  December  3,  1889. 

Black,  Frederick,  Jr., 

Born,  Black's  Island,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  February  4,  1892. 

Black,  Newbold, 

Born,  Black's  Island,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  17,  1898. 

Borden,  Margaret, 

Born,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  October  10,  1891. 
Died,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  April  27,  1892. 

Borden,  Katharine, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  29,  1893. 


146 


Borden,  Edward  Payson,  Jr., 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  February,  1896. 

Braislin,  William  Donald, 

Born,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  16,  1893. 

Braislin,  John  Cameron, 

Born,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  March  5,  1896. 

Broadwell,  Earl  William, 

Born,  New  York  City,  April  14,  1895. 

Carter,  Dorothy  Jeannette, 

Born,  Huntington,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  October  4,  1896. 

Carter,  Frederick  Herbert, 

Born,  Huntington,  L.  I.,  N.  Y.,  May  23,  1898. 

Cook,  Frank  Nelson, 

Born,  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  April  16,  1889. 
Died,  Fredonia,  N,  Y.,  April  17,  1889. 

Cook,  Joseph  Ansel, 

Born,  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  January  5,  1892. 

Cook,  Emily  Sylvia, 

Born,  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  May  16,  1895. 

Curtis,  Gordon  Hayes, 

Born,  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  March  20,  1899. 

Ford,  Rosette  Suckley, 

Born,  New  York  City,  March  8,  1892. 

Ford,  Henry  William, 

Born,  Morristown,  N.  J.,  November  28,  1894. 

Ford,  Emily  Ward, 

Born,  New  York  City,  December  20,  1895. 

FuLMER,  Lawrence  Rusling, 

Born,  Abington,  Pa.,  August  5,  1894. 

Fulmer,  Raymond  Stoner, 

Born,  Baltimore,  Md.,  December  24,  1897. 

Gesner,  Caroline  Marjorie, 

Born,  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1893. 
Died,  Saranac  Lake,  N.  Y.,  September  14,  1894. 


147 


Gesner,  Doris, 

Born,  Linden,  N.  J.,  January  14,  1895. 


Gesner, 

Born, 


Gillespie,  Ellen  Lillian, 

Born,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  10,  1894. 

Gillespie,  John  Runyon, 

Born,  Port  Jervis,  N.  Y.,  June  20,  1898. 

GiLLiLAND,  Anna  M., 

Born,  Gettysburg,  Fa.,  April  8,  1892. 

GiLLiLAND,  Margaret, 

Born,  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  November  12,  1893. 

GiLLiLAND,  Samuel  A., 

Born,  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  October  10,  1897. 

Graham,  Malbone  Watson,  Jr., 

Born,  Bogota,  Colombia,  S.  A.,  March  26,  1898. 

Gray,  John  Southgate, 

Born,  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  May  2,  1895. 
Died,  Annapolis,  Md.,  June  8,  1896. 

Gray,  Harriet  Randolph, 

Born,  Elk  Ridge,  Md.,  November  22,  1898. 

Grey,  Louise  Sinnickson, 

Born,  Woodbury,  N.  J.,  January  12,  1896. 

Grey,  Martin  Philip,  Jr., 

Born,  Woodbury,  N.  J.,  April  17,  1897. 

Halstead,  Albert,  Jr., 

Born,  Springfield,  Mass.,  October  28,  1897. 

Hewitt,  Candace, 

Born,  New  York  City,  June  14,  1893. 

Hewitt,  Ashley  Cooper, 

Born,  Kingwood,  N.  J.,  July  7,  1895. 

Hughes,  Dudley  Foulke, 

Born,  Richmond,  Ind.,  April  28,  1898. 

Hunter,  James,  Jr., 

Born,  New  York  City,  September  4,  1893. 


148 


Irons,  Alice  Katharine, 

Born,  New  York  City,  September  15,  1895. 
Died,  New  York  City,  September  23,  1895. 

Irons,  Helen  Harcourt, 

Born,  New  York  City,  September  5,  1896. 

Irons,  Henry  Clay,  Jr., 

Born,  New  York  City,  February  16,  1898. 

Irons,  William  Gibarson,  Jr., 

Born,  New  York  City,  April  27,  1899. 

JENNEY, ,  (a  SON), 

Born,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  December  30,  1897. 
Died,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  December  30,  1897. 

Jenney,  Nina  Dean, 

Born,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  January  31,  1896. 

Kauffmann,  Philip  Christopher, 

Born,  Washington,  D.  C,  October  13,  1895. 

Kauffmann,  Victor  Rudolph, 

Born,  Washington,  D.  C,  February  24,  1898. 

King,  Howard  Stokes, 

Died,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  2,  1893. 

King,  William  Paul, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  October  14,  1895. 

King,  Rodney  Stokes, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  January  22,  1897. 

King,  Dorothy  Mary, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  June  26,  1898. 

Kneeland,  Helen, 

Born,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  February  18,  1894. 

Lee,  Neyles  Webb, 

Born,  Pyeng  Yang,  Korea,  August  4,  1895. 

Lee,  Charles  Raymond, 

Born,  Pyeng  Yang,  Korea,  March  13,  1898. 

Lee,  Margaret, 

Born,  Pyeng  Yang,  Korea,  April  24,  1899. 


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Lewis,  Robert  Penniman, 

Born,  New  York  City,  January  11,  1898. 

McCoRD,  Dorothy  Davis, 

Born,  Chicago,  111.,  July  23,  1894. 

McKee,  H.  Sellers,  Jr., 

Born,  Allegheny,  Pa.,  February  11,  1891. 

Mitchell,  Clarence  Van  Schaick,  Class  Boy, 
Born,  New  York  City,  December  17,  1890. 

Mitchell,  Dorothy  Mildred, 

Born,  New  York  City,  January  25,  1893. 

Mitchell,  Lucy  Virginia, 

Born,  Lakewood,  N.  J.,  March  23,  1895. 

Mitchell,  Mildred  Aurelia, 

Born,  New  York  City,  February  2,  1897. 

Noel,  Lois  Edwards, 

Born,  St.  Louis,  Mo,,  April  26,  1891. 

Noel,  Henry  Martin, 

Born,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  18,  1892. 

Noel,  Alice  Rose, 

Born,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  March  22,  1894. 

Noel,  Lena  Lovett, 

Born,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  24,  1898. 

Remington,  Donald  Coleman, 

Born,  Holland,  Mich.,  January  6,  1897. 

Died,  Great  Burrington,  Mass.,  March  15,  1898. 

Sailer,  Josephine, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  June  17,  1896. 

Sailer,  Randolph  Clothier, 

Born,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  24,  1898. 

Speer,  Elliott, 

Born,  Englewood,  N.  J.,  November  1,  1898. 

Terhune,  Maitland  Bogert, 

Born,  Princeton,  N.  J.,  December  27,  1892, 

Todd,  Frances  Bray, 

Born,  New  York  City,  June  1,  1896. 


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Uebelacker,  Comfort  Armin, 

Born,  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  June,  1894. 

Uebelacker,  David  Bovaird, 

Born,  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  January  29,  1899. 

Watts,  Frances  Elizabeth, 

Born,  New  York  City,  April  1,  1897. 

WicKHAM,  Susan, 

Born,  Norwalk,  Ohio,  June  25,  1893. 

WiCKHAM,  Cora, 

Born,  Norwalk,  Ohio,  February  23,  1895. 

WiNTON,  David  Knox, 

Born,  Duluth,  Minn.,  January  26,  1895. 

WiNTON,  Frances  Eliza, 

Born,  Duluth,  Minn.,  October  6,  1896. 

WiNTON,   Zerlena, 

Born,  Duluth,  Minn.,  June  27,  1898. 


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Class  War  Record. 


Andrew  Banks, 

Corporal,  Tenth  Pennsylvania  Volunteer  Infantry.  Service  in 
Manila. 

Desha  Breckinridge, 

Second  Lieutenant,  Third  United  States  Volunteer  Engineers.  Aide 
to  Major-General  J.  C.  Breckinridge,  June,  1898 — December  19,  1898. 

A.  Scott  Harris, 

Private  and  Corporal,  Fifth  Pennsylvania  Infantry,  June,  1898 — 
December,  1898. 

J.  Van  Ness  Philip, 

Adjutant  at  Headquarters  of  Fourth  United  States  Volunteer  Infan- 
try, Manzanillo,  Cuba.  Promoted  July,  1899,  to  a  Captaincy  in  the 
Provisional  Army  organized  for  service  in  the  Philippine  Islands. 

Basil  N.  Kicketts, 

Sergeant,  Troop  K,  First  United  States  Volunteer  Cavalry  (Rough 
Riders).     Service  in  Cuba.     Wounded  at  Santiago,  Cuba. 

J.  Condit  Smith, 

Private,  Battery  A,  Missouri  Light  Artillery,  June,  1898 — Novem- 
ber 30,  1898.     Service  in  Puerto  Rico. 

Charles  "W.  Stevens, 

Acting  Assistant  Surgeon,  Field  Hospital,  Fort  Wadsworth,  New 
York  City. 

Cornelius  D.  Van  Wagenen, 

Assistant  Recruiting  Officer,  Seventy-First  Regiment,  New  York 
City.  Captain  and  Assistant  Surgeon,  Two  Hundred  and  First  New 
York  Volunteer  Infantry.    First  Lieutenant  and  Acting  Assistant  Sur- 


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geon,  United  States  Army,  on  board  United  States  Hospital  Ship 
"Relief."  Saw  service  in  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico.  Now  on  board  "  Relief  " 
in  harbor  of  Manila,  Philippine  Islands. 

Thomas  B.  Whitistet, 

Corporal,  First  United  States  Volunteer  Engineers,  June,  1898 — 
January,  1899.  Service  in  Puerto  Rico,  August  1898 — November,  1898. 
Interpreter  to  Captain  Hough,  First  United  States  Volunteer  Engineers, 
on  report  of  Spanish  Government  property  turned  over  to  the  United 
States  in  Province  of  Ponce,  Puerto  Rico. 


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Statistical  Summary. 


MEMBERSHIP. 

Graduate  Members 94 

Non-graduate   Members 56 

Total  Members  connected  with  class 150 

Living  (so  far  as  known) 138 

On  Class  Roll,  July  1,  1899 132 

MARRIAGES. 

Graduates 48 

Non-graduates 23 

Total 71 

CHILDREN. 

"»>- {Sf'l 

Girls  /  ^'^^"S.  35 
I  dead,       5 

Unknown 1 

Total 87 

OCCUPATIONS. 

Business 45 

Law 25 

Medicine 16 

Theology 16 

Teaching 10 


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Journalism 6 

Engineering 6 

Literature 2 

Chemistry 2 

Farming 1 

Art 1 

Unknown 3 

Total 132 


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The  Decennial  Reunion. 


The  Headquarters  of  the  Class  of  1889,  at  its  Decennial  Keunion, 
comprised  the  entire  house,  with  its  yard,  situated  on  University  Place, 
the  second  door  north  of  Dr.  Duifield's  residence. 

The  rear  portion  of  this  yard,  protected  by  high  fences  and  screens, 
and  roofed  with  canvas,  was  transformed  into  a  large  tent.  On  each  side 
of  the  tent  and  for  almost  its  entire  length  ran  long  tables,  flanked  on 
either  side  by  chairs,  and  terminating  at  the  lower  end  in  a  raised  plat- 
form, on  which  stood  a  piano. 

The  ground  floor  of  the  house  was  given  over  to  lounging  rooms, 
supplied  with  the  current  newspapers  and  writing  materials,  and  to  a  din- 
ing room  where  meals  were  served  to  members  of  the  Class.  The  rest  of 
the  rooms  in  the  house  were  fitted  up  as  sleeping  quarters,  and  were  occu- 
pied each  night  by  some  thirty  men. 

Although  it  had  been  announced  that  the  Headquarters  would  not  be 
opened  until  Saturday,  June  10,  a  large  number  of  the  Class  appeared  in 
Princeton  the  preceding  day. 

The  rain  of  Saturday  morning  kept  under  roof  the  Class,  which  was 
augmented  at  the  arrival  of  every  train. 

The  breaking  of  the  clouds  after  luncheon  introduced  the  beautiful 
weather  which  lasted  throughout  the  time  of  the  Keunion,  and  allowed 
the  playing  of  the  Yale  baseball  game,  which  was  the  first  event  of  Com- 
mencement Week. 

Some  fifty  members  of  the  Class,  headed  by  its  banner  and  the  New 
Jersey  Naval  Keserve  Band  of  sixteen  pieces,  marched  to  the  Varsity 
grounds  ;  and,  after  circling  the  track  with  the  other  graduate  classes  and 
their  five  bands,  watched  the  game  from  left  field.  After  thegame  the  Class 
and  its  band  joined  the  rest  of  the  alumni  in  a  parade  through  town. 

In  the  evening  the  Class  marched  with  its  band  to  the  home  of 
President  Patton,  and  then  returned  to  headquarters,  where  it  played  host 
to  the  major  part  of  the  alumni  then  in  Princeton. 


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The  principal  feature  of  Monday  was  the  golf  match  between  '88  and 
'89,  which  was  actually  played,  but  the  result  of  which  has  never  been 
accurately  determined. 

Tuesday  morning  an  alleged  "  Missionary  "  nine  played  the  "  Devils." 
The  score  at  the  end  of  the  ninth  inning  was,  runs,  thirteen  each  ;  errors, 
eight  each  ;  men  exhausted,  nine  each.  The  ball  was  uninjured.  The 
umpire  and  scorer  refused  to  break  the  tie  by  matching,  and  the  game  will 
be  finished  in  1904. 

At  one  o'clock  the  Class  went  to  the  alumni  dinner  and  heard  Col- 
onel Bill  Jenney  respond  for  '89  in  a  manful,  graceful,  and  well  timed 
speech.  Immediately  after  the  dinner  the  Class  was  photographed  on  the 
steps  of  North  College,  and  then  held  a  business  meeting  in  the  Mathe- 
matical Koom  of  Dickinson  Hall,  with  President  Bovaird  in  the  chair  and 
Dennis  at  the  door  with  his  hat  pressed  into  service  as  a  contribution  box. 

The  following  business  was  transacted  : 

The  Decennial  Memorial  Committee  reported  through  its  chairman. 
Its  report  was  accepted,  and  its  recommendations  amended  and  adopted. 
(See  page  158  for  the  Report  in  full.) 

The  Class  President  was  authorized  to  appoint  at  his  discretion  a  com- 
mittee to  arrange  for  and  manage  a  Class  Reunion  in  1904.  The  Class 
Secretary  was  authorized  to  prepare  and  print  a  Class  Record  in  1904. 
The  Committee  for  New  York  City  was  directed  to  arrange  for  a  dinner 
in  New  York  City  on  the  night  preceding  the  Yale  Foot-ball  Game,  in 
November,  1899.  Howard  C.  Warren  was  appointed  a  committee  to  re- 
ceive subscriptions  for,  and  to  supervise  the  placing  of,  a  bronze  tablet  (if 
possible)  on  the  outer  wall  of  the  new  Library,  in  memory  of  the  loyalty 
of  George  Kerr  Edwards  to,  and  his  love  for  Princeton.  The  Sesqui- 
Centennial  Reunion  Committee  made  a  verbal  report,  and  was  directed  to 
furnish  the  Class  Secretary  with  a  copy  in  writing.  (See  page  160.)  The 
Special  Committee  appointed  to  represent  the  Class  at  the  funeral  of 
George  Kerr  Edwards  made  a  vei'bal  report,  and  was  directed  to  furnish 
the  Class  Secretary  with  a  copy  in  writing.  (See  page  159.)  The  Decen- 
nial Reunion  Committee  made  a  verbal  report.  The  Class  Secretary  was 
directed  to  publish  the  reports  submitted  at  the  business  meeting  in  the 
Decennial  Record.  The  Class  Secretary  was  directed  to  insert  pictures  of 
George  Kerr  Edwards  and  of  the  Class  Decennial  Group  in  the  Decennial 
Record.  Votes  of  thanks  were  tendered  the  Decennial  Reunion  Com- 
mittee for  its  services,  and  the  Class  officers  for  their  efforts  on  behalf  of 


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the  Class.  The  Class  then  adjourned  to  meet  in  business  session  at  the 
call  of  the  President. 

On  the  adjournment  of  the  meeting  the  Class  marched  to  the  cemetery 
and  each  member  dropped  flowers  on  the  graves  of  Dean  Murray  and  Dr. 
McCosh. 

At  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  fifty-five  men  assembled  at  the  Inn, 
where  the  Class  Dinner  was  held.  Dinner  over  the  Class  returned  to 
Headquarters  and  spent  the  evening,  as  it  had  the  previous  ones,  in  sing- 
ing, lying  and  listening  to  lies. 

By  Wednesday  afternoon  almost  all  of  the  Class  had  started  home. 

The  following  men  were  present  during  the  Reunion  : 

Alexander,  J.  N.  Atkinson,  W.  P.  Atkinson,  Belknap,  Black,  Bon- 
sal,  Bovaird,  Brooks,  Brownlee,  Coale,  Conover,  Denegre,  Dix,  Emans, 
Ford,  Furst,  George,  Gulick,  Hewitt,  Hotchkiss,  Hunter,  Irons,  Jenney, 
Katzenbach,  Kauft'mann,  King,  Kneeland,  A.  C.  McCord,  D.  W. 
McCord,  McCulloch,  G.  G.  Merrill,  Mitchell,  Morris,  Mudge,  Neher, 
Noel,  Noyes,  Paxton,  Pollison,  Rand,  Bobbins,  Rollins,  Sailer,  Scofield, 
Shepherd,  Shrady,  L.  M.  Smith,  Speer,  Stevens,  D.  W.  Taylor,  Terhune, 
J.  R.  Thorpe,  S.  S.  Thorpe,  D.  R.  Todd,  J.  R.  Todd,  Torrey,  Uebelacker, 
Warren,  Waters,  White,  Wyckofl'. 


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Reports  of  Committees. 


REPOET  OF  DECENNIAL  MEMORIAL  COMMITTEE. 

The  Decennial  Memorial  Committee  was  appointed  at  the  Triennial 
Reunion,  and  at  once  proceeded  to  solicit  funds  from  the  Class  for  the 
Memorial  and  to  secure  suggestions  as  to  its  character.  At  the  Sexennial 
meeting  the  Committee  reported  that  $1,665  had  been  promised,  and  re- 
commended, after  consultation  with  the  librarian  and  others  in  Princeton, 
that  the  Memorial  should  take  the  form  of  the  endowment  of  an  alcove 
in  the  library,  to  be  known  as  the  Class  of  1889  Alcove  of  Books  on 
American  History  and  Politics,  each  book  to  contain  a  label  stating  that 
it  had  been  purchased  by  the  fund,  and  the  annual  interest  of  the  Memorial 
Offering  alone  to  be  used  for  such  purchases.  The  Class  adopted  this 
recommendation,  and  instructed  the  committee  to  continue  to  present  the 
matter  earnestly  to  the  members  of  the  Class.  The  Committee  has  done  this 
to  the  best  of  its  ability,  and,  it  fear.*,  to  the  considerable  ann<^)yance  of  the 
Class.  The  Committee  reports  herewith  the  amount  of  the  contributions 
received  as  $5,671,  $2,500  of  which  was  a  legacy  from  George  Edwards, 
and  recommends  (1)  That  this  amount,  with  the  exception  of  the  bequest 
of  Edwards,  which  is  already  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  College, 
as  the  Committee  understands,  be  paid  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  Commit- 
tee to  the  Treasurer  of  the  College,  to  be  used  for  the  purpose  and  in  the 
manner  specified.  (2)  That  in  making  this  gift  the  Class  expresses  its 
desire  that  this  endowment  shall  not  be  allowed  to  interfere  with  or 
diminish  any  allotment  of  money  for  the  purchase  of  books  on  American 
History  and  Politics,  which  would  otherwise  be  made  out  of  the  general 
funds  of  the  Library.  (3)  That  before  the  next  Class  Reunion  such  sup- 
plementary contributions  be  made  as  shall  increase  the  gifts  of  the  Class 
to  $6,000,  and  if  possible  to  $10,000.     (4).  That  the  Class  President  in- 


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form  the  President  of  the  University  of  this  Decennial  offering,  and  of 
what  the  Class  hopes  to  do  further ;  and  (5)  That  the  Committee  be  dis- 
charged. 

Robert  Elliott  Speer,  Chairman, 
Clarence  Blair  Mitchell,  Treasurer, 
Maitland  Alexander, 
Frank  Snowden  Katzenbach,  Jr., 
Bertram  Howard  "Waters. 

It  was  voted  that  the  report  be  adopted,  with  the  exception  of  the  last 
recommendation,  and  the  Committee  was  continued  for  live  years,  with 
the  thanks  of  the  Class  for  its  work,  its  name  to  be  the  Memorial  Com- 
mittee, the  Committee  to  act  as  may  seem  wise  to  it,  and  to  have  authority 
to  pay  over  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  College  any  contributions  received  by 
it  at  such  times  as  the  Committee  may  deem  wise. 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE   ON   THE  DEATH   OF  GEORGE  K. 
EDWARDS. 

Your  Committee,  through  one  of  its  members,  knew,  at  the  time  of 
Edwards'  death,  of  his  intended  generous  gifts  to  the  University  and  to 
the  Class.  As  your  Committee  had  no  right  to  mention  these  gifts  until 
their  announcement  by  Edwards'  executor,  it  decided  not  to  pass  resolu- 
tions, because  a  formal  declaration  by  the  Class,  which  ignored  Edwards' 
great  generosity,  might  appear  later  to  have  been  ungracious,  and  resolu- 
tions passed  after  the  executor's  announcement  might  seem  to  have  been 
prompted  by  it. 

Accordinglj',  your  Committee  took  no  other  action  than  to  attend  the 
funeral,  and  to  place  on  Edwards'  grave  such  flowers  as  it  believed 
Edwards'  warmest  friends  would  wish  to  have  put  there  by  the  Class. 

Tne  expenses  of  your  Committee  were  $28.60.  Its  sole  receipts  were 
$16.58,  transferred  to  it  from  the  '89  Sesqui-Centennial  Committee. 

The  Class  owes  the  Edwards  Committee  $12.02. 

Philip  Ashton  Rollins,  Chairman. 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
Arthur  Audley   Brownlee. 


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EEPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  FOR  NEW   YORK  CITY. 

Your  Special  Committee  for  New  York  City  reports  that  its  total  re- 
ceipts since  the  date  of  its  last  report  in  1894  have  been  |141.50,  and  its 
total  disbursements  for  the  same  period  $156.35,  leavmg  it  the  creditor  of 
the  Cla.ss  in  the  amount  of  $14.85. 

No  money  has  been  received  by  the  Committee  except  in  pajMiientfor 
the  tickets  for  the  Annual  Class  Supper,  and  the  Committee  accordingly 
now  asks  the  Class  to  liquidate  the  deficiency  in  the  Committee's  Treasury. 
The  Committee  has  reserved  a  room  at  the  "  Arena,"  41  West 
Thirty-first  Street,  New  York  City,  for  an  informal  supper  of  the  Class, 
to  be  held  the  night  before  the  Yale-Princeton  Foot  Ball  game  in 
November,  1899. 

Philip  Ashton  Rollins,   Chairman. 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
Cornelius  Doremus  Van  Wagenen, 
David  Bovaird,  Jr.,  ex-officio. 

REPORT  OF  SESQUI-CENTENNIAL  REUNION  COMMITTEE. 

The  total  receipts  of  the  .Sesqui-Centennial  Reunion  Committee  were 
1157.50;  the  total  disbursements  $140.92.  The  balance  of  $16.58  was 
turned  over  to  the  Special  Committee  on  the  death  of  George  Kerr  Ed- 
wards. As  the  Class  acted  solely  the  part  of  a  spectator  during  the  cele- 
bration, save  that  it  marched  in  the  Alumni  parade,  it  is  unnecessary  for 
the  Committee  to  note  further  details. 

Philip  Ashton  Rollins,  Chairman. 
A.  Edward  Conover,  Jr., 
Alexander  Reading  Gulick, 
T.  H.  Powers  Sailer, 
Howard  Crosby  Warren. 


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Princeton  University's  Progress. 


^^HE  four  years  since  the  publication  of  the  Sexennial  Record  consti- 
\5)  tute  a  remarkable  period  in  the  history  of  our  Alma  Mater.  The 
most  important  item  of  progress  is  that  which  is  intimated  in  the 
heading  of  this  article,  the  assumption  of  the  title  of  Princeton  Univer. 
sity.  This  was  done  in  connection  with  the  Sesquicentennial  Celebration, 
in  October,  1896,  when  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
signing  of  the  first  charter  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  was  celebrated 
with  elaborate  ceremonies,  covering  three  days.  The  occasion  was  digni- 
fied by  the  presence  of  numerous  representatives  of  American  and  Foreign 
Universities,  and  a  number  of  the  latter  gave  lectures  before  the  faculty 
and  students,  both  before  and  after  the  anniversary. 

The  assumption  of  the  title  of  the  university  has  been  preceded  and 
followed  by  a  large  increase  in  the  number  of  elective  and  graduate 
courses.  There  are  now  three  hundred  and  five  distinct  courses  provided 
for  the  college  and  graduate  departments,  exclusive  of  the  scientific  school, 
and  many  of  them  are  open  to  the  upper  classmen  of  the  School  of  Science. 
It  may  also  be  said  truly  that  these  courses  are  not  simply  on  paper,  but 
that  they  have  come  in  the  natural  course  of  development,  and  all  are 
taken  by  a  number  of  the  students  every  year.  The  curriculum  of  the 
School  of  Science  has  undergone  a  complete  revision,  and  the  new  sched- 
ule will  go  into  operation  with  the  beginning  of  the  next  Academic  year. 
The  faculty  has  increased  so  that  the  catalogue  for  the  current  year  gives 
eighty-five  professors  and  instructors,  as  against  seventy -seven  in  1895, 
and  the  opportunities  thus  aftbrded  are  increased  by  the  presence  every 
year  of  a  number  of  lecturers  from  abroad. 

Our  Class  continues  to  hold  a  very  honorable  place  in  the  roll  of  the 
Faculty.  Howard  Crosby  Warren  has  been  made  assistant  professor  of  Ex- 
perimental Psychology  ;  Fred  Neher,  after  a  two  years'  absence,  devoted  to 
the  study  of  Organic  Chemistry,  returned  last  fall  to  occupy  the  assistant 
professorship  of  Analytical  Chemistry  ;  Edmund  Yard  Robbins  was  pro- 
moted this  year  to  an  assistant  professorship  in  Greek  ;  and  Frederic  Crosby 


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Torrey  has  been  very  successful  in  the  department  of  Graphics.  The 
change  in  the  School  of  Science  curriculum,  already  noted,  so  reduced 
the  time  given  to  Graphics  that  Torrey's  services  were  no  longer  needed, 
and  he  retires  from  the  Faculty,  being  honored  by  the  Trustees  at  their 
spring  meeting  with  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

In  reviewing  the  courses  of  study,  we  notice  that  Warren  is  en- 
gaged in  the  following  courses :  Psychology  required.  Junior  first 
term ;  Experimental  Psychology,  Junior  elective,  second  term ;  the 
Psychology  of  Logic,  Senior  elective,  second  term;  Experimental 
Psychology,  Senior  elective  and  graduate  course,  first  term ;  the 
same  in  the  second  term ;  research  work  in  the  same  subject,  a 
graduate  course  for  both  terms ;  and  Theory  of  Mental  Measurements,  a 
graduate  course  for  the  first  term.  All  these  courses  are  two  hours  weekly. 
Neher  is  equally  busy.  The  courses  with  which  he  is  connected  are 
Quantitative  Analysis,  Junior  year,  first  term  four  hours,  second  term 
five  hours  ;  the  advanced  course  in  Qualitative  Analysis,  Junior  year, 
first  term,  two  hours ;  Quantitative  Analysis,  Senior  year,  six  hours 
both  terms ;  and  a  Senior  elective  in  the  same  subject,  second  term, 
four  hours.  Neher  has  also  just  introduced  the  last  term  a  four 
hours'  laboratory  course  with  lectures  in  Organic  Chemistry.  He  has 
also  Volumetric  Analysis  one  hour  in  the  first  term  with  the  Seniors. 
Bobbins  has  part  of  the  Freshman  Class  in  Hellenica,  required,  four 
hours  weekly  for  the  first  term,  and  Herodotus  two  hours  in  the 
second  term.  In  the  Sophomore  year  he  has  part  of  the  class 
in  the  two  hours  required  course  of  the  first  term  and  the  elective  in 
Lucian's  Dialogues  in  the  second  term.  He  teaches  also  the  Greek  Dia- 
lects in  the  graduate  course,  two  hours  in  both  terms,  and  a  two  years 
Senior  elective  and  graduate  course  extending  through  both  terms  in 
Sanskrit  and  Avestan.  Torrey  with  Professor  Willson  has  had  the  entire 
course  in  Graphics  running  through  from  Freshman  year  to  graduation. 

The  entrance  requirements  remain  as  at  the  time  of  our  last  Reunion 
with  the  exception  that  both  French  and  German  are  now  required  for 
the  Scientific  Department.  The  increase  in  the  number  of  electives  and 
the  extension  of  courses  has  had  however  its  influence  on  the  course  of 
studies.  All  the  Freshman  studies  are  required  except  French  and  German 
of  which  the  student  must  elect  one.  The  Sophomores  have  the  choice  of 
two  from  five  electives  in  Languages  and  Mathematics  making  four  hours 
elective.     In  the  Junior  year  only  five  hours  are  required  in  the  first  term 


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and  six  in  the  second,  the  required  studies  being  Physics,  Psychology, 
Logic  and  Political  Economy.  Logic  will  hereafter  be  given  in  the  Sopho- 
more year.  The  first  term  of  Senior  year  is  entirely  elective.  In  the  sec- 
ond term  Ethic*  is  required,  and  after  this  year  Evidences  of  Christianity 
will  be  supplanted  by  lectures  by  the  President.  It  is  probable  that 
Princeton  has  about  reached  the  limit  of  its  extension  of  elective  courses. 
There  is  a  manifest  reaction  against  the  tendency  in  the  larger  universities 
toward  an  extreme  elective  system.  It  is  felt,  as  said  by  President  Hadley 
of  Yale,  that  the  elective  system  invites  too  strongly  to  specialization,  to 
the  neglect  of  a  broad  foundation  of  general  culture  and  education.  The 
experience  of  late  years  more  than  justifies  the  position  taken  and  held 
firmly  by  Princeton,  that  there  are  certain  studies  and  a  certain  prepara- 
tory course  necessary  for  the  best  results  whatever  may  be  the  life  work  of 
the  student. 

The  number  of  students  increases,  but  not  so  rapidly  as  a  few  years  ago. 
Princeton  felt  severely  the  influence  of  the  years  of  commercial  depression, 
drawing  her  students  so  largely  from  mercantile  and  manufacturing 
centres.  The  present  Freshman  class  is,  however,  the  largest  in  the  history 
of  the  institution,  numbering  three  hundred  and  eleven  exclusive  of 
specials  The  number  of  special  students  is  very  much  smaller  than  in 
former  years,  and  the  eiforts  of  the  faculty  are  given  to  restrict  this  class 
of  students  to  worthy  cases.  This  fact  should  be  borne  in  mind  in  the 
comparison  of  figures.  The  catalogue  for  the  current  academic  year  in- 
cludes one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  graduate  students,  six  hundred  and 
thirty-three  academic  students,  and  three  hundred  and  thirty-eight  in  the 
scientific  department,  making  a  total  of  one  thousand  and  ninety-nine. 
At  the  Sexennial  the  total  was  one  thousand  and  nine.  The  prospects  for 
the  coming  year  at  the  present  writing  are  that  the  incoming  class  will  be 
even  larger  than  that  of  last  fall,  and,  as  commercial  prosperity  has 
returned,  a  rapid  advance  in  the  number  of  students  may  be  expected. 

"While  your  Secretary  is  not  able  to  report  so  numerous  additions  to 
the  buildings  on  the  campus,  the  late  material  and  financial  progress  of  the 
University  has  been  marked.  An  effort  was  made  in  connection  with  the 
Sesquicentennial  Celebration  to  increase  the  endowment  fund  of  the  Uni- 
versity, and  about  one  million  four  hundred  thousand  dollars  was  obtained. 
This  has  been  increased  by  gifts  to  such  an  amount  that  the  sum  total 
received  since  the  publication  of  the  Sexennial  is  in  advance  of  two  mil- 
lion dollars.     A  very  considerable  portion  of  this  sum   has  gone  into  the 


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new  Library  building,  the  most  conspicuous  and  ornate  structure  on  the 
campus.  The  building  is  connected  by  a  hyphen  with  the  old  Chancellor 
Green  Library,  and  surrounds  an  open  court  occupying  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  ground  covered  by  the  Old  Chapel  and  East  College — both 
of  which  buildings  have  been  removed.  The  new  building  is  of  brown 
stone  highly  carved  and  with  a  massive  tower,  containing  in  the  lower 
storj'  heroic  statues  of  Witherspoon  and  McCosh,  and  in  the  upper  story 
similar  figures  of  President  Madison  and  Justice  Ellsworth.  With  the 
Chancellor  Green  Library  it  furnishes  accommodations  for  one  and  one- 
half  million  volumes.  It  is  up-to-date  in  all  its  appointments,  and  has  a 
number  of  rooms  set  apart  as  seminaries  for  the  various  departments.  The 
old  library  building  is  used  as  a  working  library,  and  by  the  introduction 
of  electricity  the  library  can  be  used  in  the  evenings.  The  new  building 
cost  over  eight  hundred  thousand  dollars  with  its  present  equipment,  and 
the  additions  in  books  by  gift  and  bj'  purchase  have  been  very  numerous. 
The  prospect  is  bright  for  the  growth  of  the  library  as  rapidly  as  is 
desirable. 

Two  new  dormitories  have  been  given.  Blair  Hall,  the  gift  of  the 
Hon.  John  I.  Blair,  skirts  the  campus  on  University  Place  side.  Avery 
handsome  stone  tower  with  archway  covers  the  approach  from  the  railway 
station,  and  the  entire  building  makes  a  very  imposing  and  pleasing  im- 
pression on  the  visitor.  The  building  cost  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  The  Hon.  Henry  S.  Little,  of  the  Class  of  1844,  has  given  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars  for  a  new  dormitory  to  be  known  as  StaflTord 
Little  Hall,  which  is  now  in  process  of  construction,  and  will  be  ready  for 
occupancy  in  the  fall.  It  continues  the  line  of  the  campus  from  Blair 
Hall  in  the  direction  of  the  Brokaw  field.  These  dormitories  are  two 
stories  high,  excepting  the  towers,  with  several  entrances,  each  communi- 
cating with  eight  suites  of  rooms.  It  should  be  added  that  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Eailroad  has  made  notable  improvements  at  the  station.  The 
freight  department  has  been  moved  down  near  Canal  Street,  and  a  new 
passenger  depot,  with  a  large  platform,  has  been  erected  and  accommoda- 
tions given  in  the  way  of  extra  tracks,  while  near  the  Brokaw  athletic 
field  seven  new  sidings  have  been  placed  for  special  occasions.  This  ath- 
letic field  is  now  in  use.  The  Princeton- Yale  foot-ball  game  was  played 
there  last  fall,  and  with  the  new  sidings  no  institution  in  the  country  has 
the  facilities  for  the  convenient  and  speedy  handling  of  an  immense  crowd 
enjoyed  by  Princeton.     Mr.  M.  Taylor  Pyne  has  built  two  dormitories  on 


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Nassau  Street,  displacing  many  of  the  old  and  unsightly  structures.  One 
is  opposite  Dean  Murray's  late  residence,  and  the  other  on  the  east  corner 
of  Nassau  and  Witherspoon  Streets.  One  of  these  has  been  given  to 
the  University  in  lieu  of  East  College.  It  is  understood  also  that  the 
University  has  come  into  the  possession  of  University  Hall  and  the  'Varsity 
athletic  field,  which  belonged  to  the  William  Libbey  estate,  subject  to  a 
mortgage  of  forty  thousand  dollars. 

A  full  half-million  of  the  sum  named  was  received  by  the  University 
during  the  year  closing  with  the  Commencement.  One  hundred  thousand 
of  this  sum  came  for  Staiford  Little  Hall.  A  like  sum  was  received  for 
the  new  chair  in  English  to  be  occupied  by  the  Kev.  Henry  van  Dyke, 
D.D.,  of  New  York  City,  and  also  for  a  new  chair  in  Politics,  the  incum- 
bent of  which  has  not  yet  been  chosen.  President  Patton  also  announced 
that  eighty-five  thousand  dollars  had  been  received  toward  a  new  chair  in 
History.  The  new  library  building  has  proven  a  strong  incentive  to  gifts 
in  that  direction,  and  many  large  and  valuable  donations  of  books  have 
been  received.  The  rooms  in  the  building  set  apart  for  the  Classical, 
Philosophical,  Mathematical,  Political  Economy  and  Romance  Lan- 
guage Seminaries  have  been  furnished,  equipped  with  appropriate  libra- 
ries and  endowed  at  an  average  expense  exceeding  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars. Our  own  memorial  gift  will  endow  the  alcove  of  American 
History  and  Politics.  Two  new  fellowships  in  History  and  one  in 
English,  yielding  five  hundred  dollars  each  annually,  and  two  new 
Junior  German  prizes  were  founded.  Last,  but  not  least,  Mr.  William 
E.  Dodge  of  New  York  City  and  his  son,  Cleveland  Dodge  of  the 
the  Class  of  1879,  have  given  a  new  and  commodious  building  for 
the  use  of  the  Philadelphian  Society.  The  plans  are  practically  per- 
fected and  the  erection  of  the  building  will  be  begun  this  summer  in  the 
open  space  between  Whig  and  Murray  Halls.  All  these  gifts  received 
by  the  University  are  peculiarlj'  gratifying  in  that  they  add  directly  to 
the  resources  of  the  treasury  or  increase  the  facilities  for  instruction.  The 
income  from  the  new  dormitory  will  be  available,  and  the  new  professor- 
ships will  strengthen  the  teaching  force  while  the  gifts  to  the  library 
multiply  the  advantages  for  special  study  and  research. 

As  to  the  future,  a  bequest  of  forty-five  thousand  dollars  will  be  re- 
ceived within  the  coming  year,  and  President  Patton  announces  that,  hav- 
ing given  attention  to  more  needy  departments,  he  proposes  to  secure  at 
once  from  the  alumni  the  completion  of  the  McCosh  professorship  in  Phil- 


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osophy.  A  new  recitation  hall  and  a  gymnasium  are  greatly  needed. 
The  best  thing  concerning  the  late  large  gifts  is  that  they  have  come 
almost  entirely  from  graduates,  and  with  this  interest  shown  by  the 
alumni  the  future  of  Princeton  is  secure. 

In  athletics  the  last  four  years  have  brought  to  Princeton  one  cham- 
pionship in  intercollegiate  tennis,  two  in  football,  and  three  in  baseball. 
We  have  been  uniformly  successful  in  our  dual  athletic  games  with  Col- 
umbia and  Cornell,  and  have  greatly  improved  our  position  in  the  Mott 
Haven  games.  By  the  liberality  of  some  of  the  alumni  the  University 
will  send  a  representative  team  to  the  Paris  Exposition  games  next  year, 
when  it  is  hoped  we  will  repeat  our  victories  at  the  first  revival  of  the 
Olympic  games  at  Athens  in  1896. 

The  Faculty  has  lost  three  of  its  members  by  death.  Since  our  last 
Reunion  the  venerable  ex-president,  James  McCosh,  ripe  in  years  and 
loaded  with  honors  and  the  affection  of  the  alumni,  was  laid  to  his  rest. 
J.  Stillwell  Schanck,  Emeritus  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Hygiene,  and 
the  beloved  James  Ormsbee  Murray,  Dean  of  the  Faculty,  and  Holmes 
Professor  of  Belles  liCttres  and  the  English  Language  and  Literature,  both 
died  during  the  past  year.  All  three  were  buried  in  the  historic  Prince- 
ton Cemetery.  At  the  Commencement  meeting  the  Trustees  elected  to 
the  Deanship  Professor  Samuel  Ross  Winans,  a  selection  which  meets  with 
the  cordial  approval  of  faculty,  alumni  and  students.  He  will  occupy  the 
residence  of  the  late  Dean. 

Thus  we  close  another  review  of  the  progress  of  our  beloved  Univer- 
sity. She  grows  with  the  years,  and  ever  commands  by  her  fidelity  to 
her  traditions  and  her  work  our  most  hearty  loyalty.  Never  was  she  so 
well  equipped  for  work,  and  never  was  her  work  better  done  than  it  is  to- 
day. That  the  prosperity  of  the  late  years  may  be  ever  more  abundant  in 
the  years  to  come  is  our  hope,  and  we  will  pledge  anew  our  eflforts  to 
spread  her  fame  and  enlarge  her  influence  at  every  opportunity. 


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Appendix. 


Witness  the  power  of  Phil  Rollins'  plead- 
Halstead,  Albert  ings  !     At  last  we  have  received  a  letter  from 

Albert  Halstead.  It  is  short,  indeed,  but  we  are 
in  no  mood  to  quarrel  with  him  over  that  fact.     He  writes  us  : 

"  I  am  very  sorry  not  to  have  been  at  the  Eeunion.  This  is  about  all 
that  I  have  to  record  which  will  interest  the  Class. 

"  On  March  11,  1896,  I  became  editor  of  the  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, '  Union.'  I  was  married  on  December  8,  1896,  to  Miss  Aline  "Wil- 
cox, of  Washington,  D.  C.  Our  son,  Albert  Halstead,  Jr.,  was  born 
October  28,  1897.     The  address,  Springfield,  Massachusetts,  will  catch  me. 

"  I  trust  you  are  well  and  prospering.  T  am  sure  you  are  doing  good 
in  your  life  work." 

We  have  just  learned  from  Eollins   that  Mc- 
McLean,  W.  B.  Lean  has  returned  to  his  old  home  at   Shippens- 

burg,  Cumberland  County,  Pennsylvania,  that  he 
has  recently  been  married,  and  is  now  employed  in  a  bank  in  Shippens- 
burg.  We  regret  that  there  is  no  time  to  secure  further  news  of  him 
before  the  Record  is  printed. 

Rollins  writes  us  further  that  McMillan  was 
McMillan,  W.  T.  engaged  in  the  powder  business  for  some  time, 

and  is  now  connected  with  some  electrical  con- 
cern.    He  lives  in  Gramercy  Park,  New  York  City. 

Thompson  left  our  ranks  in  December,  1885. 

Thompson,  Dean  He  was  heard  of  afterward  in  Trenton  and  Asbury 

Park,  New  Jersey.     He  is  said  to  have  been  a 

stenographer  at  one  time.      His   present   residence   and   occupation   are 

unknown. 


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